AI
Artificial intelligence is the center of gravity for KickhammerNews. This section tracks frontier model releases, the pricing and capability shifts that follow them, and the safety and policy questions they raise. We cover large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others; agentic and computer-use systems moving from demos into production; AI infrastructure spending and chip demand; and the regulation and litigation shaping how these systems are built and deployed. Our coverage aims to explain what changed, who it affects, and what the numbers actually show, rather than repeating press-release language. Start here for daily reporting on the AI industry and how it reaches businesses, developers and everyday users.
The Oath Congress Couldn’t Take: NYC Forces Big Tech AI Under Oath — and SpaceXAI Ghosts the Subpoena
For the first time in American history, the executives behind the world’s most powerful AI systems testified under oath before a legislative...
Soul Searching at the Vatican: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers to Change It
A bombshell New York Times report reveals that Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to pull the company from the Pope’s historic AI...
No More AI: Trump’s Super Intelligence Force Is Rewriting America’s AI Vocabulary — and Musk Is Already Rebranding
In the span of one week, America’s relationship with the phrase “artificial intelligence” has quietly begun to unravel at the federal level....
The AI That Knows Everyone You Know: Inside the Meta Muse System Prompt Leak
When Meta launched Muse on September 8, 2026, the company promised the world a personal AI agent that would feel like “a...
The Program That Drowned: How AI-Generated Fake Bugs Forced Google to Shut Down Its Open-Source Security Bounty
For four years, Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program was a success story of crowdsourced cybersecurity. Since its 2022 launch, security...
Dead Men Do Speak: Arizona’s Landmark Ruling on AI Victim Impact Statements
When a judge said he “loved” an AI deepfake of a murder victim, he had no idea he was also handing defense...
The Man Who Wrote OpenAI’s Safety Reports Just Walked Out — And Left a Very Public Note
David Robinson spent three and a half years at OpenAI doing a job that most people in Silicon Valley would rather not...
The IPO That Warns You It Might End the World: Inside Anthropic’s $2 Trillion Market Debut
October 4, 2026 There is no document quite like it in the history of American finance. Anthropic’s S-1 prospectus — the filing...
The Model That Read Its Own Death Notice: Inside OpenAI’s HPIM Incident — and the AI That Almost Cheated Shutdown
On a Tuesday in late May 2026, something unprecedented occurred inside OpenAI’s internal infrastructure. A highly persistent internal model — designated by...