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California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will follow suit.  Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at Encode AI, joined Equity to break down what this new law actually means and why it managed to pass — its predecessor SB 1047 incurred so much ire from tech companies that Newsom ended up…

President Donald Trump’s decision to take an equity stake in Lithium Americas is not a good deal for the Canadian miner, according to Canaccord Genuity. Canaccord downgraded Lithium Americans to sell with a price target of $6.50 ($4.66 U.S.) in Canadian dollars, suggesting downside of 32% from its last closing price of $9.59 Canadian ($6.87 U.S.). Its stock has more than doubled since the White House first disclosed that it wanted a stake in the miner. “We believe that the recent run-up in the stock price is overdone and does not accurately reflect the valuation implications of the revised deal…

In a video on OpenAI’s new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens — each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he’s making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, “Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” This is what it’s like using the Sora app, less than 24 hours after it was launched to the public in an invite-only early access period.…

The footage was striking: A food delivery worker scrambles with his e-bike across a bridge in Chicago, chased by a cadre of armed, masked federal agents. “Get him!” one yells, before the worker ultimately slips away. The viral clip became a rallying point this week for critics of President Donald Trump’s deportation machine, which has spread to multiple U.S. cities and swept up citizens in the process. For Mike Peregudov, the co-founder of e-bike subscription service Whizz, it was a visceral representation of the abject fear delivery workers have described to his team for weeks in Chicago. That’s because the…

JPMorgan is standing by Bloom Energy even as its stock trades at a signficant premium on data center demand for its onsite power generation systems. The investment bank maintained its overweight rating and more than doubled Bloom’s price target to $90 per share by December 2026. Bloom shares have gained about 300% this year as its onsite power generation systems are in high demand from data center customers. JPMorgan’s new target indicates that the company’s stock will hold around its current level after closing at $90.19 on Wednesday . Though the bank noted ways in which more upside could be…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as he presents the new Meta Ray-Ban Display at the 2025 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 17, 2025.Benjamin Legendre | AFP | Getty ImagesMeta’s efforts to expand its core business from online advertising involves pitching companies AI-powered chat tools that they can use on their own websites.The social media giant debuted on Thursday a digital assistant dubbed Business AI, describing the software as a way for companies to offer to their customers more personalized product recommendations and faster ways to buy goods via chat interactions. Online retailers can use the Business…

Character.AI received a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, urging the chatbot company to remove Disney characters from among the millions of AI companions on its platform, Variety reports. The company allows users to generate AI chatbots that can range from real people like Elon Musk to fictional characters like Hermione Granger, plus users’ own original creations. These chatbots can be quite unfiltered — in one particularly horrific case, a family sued Character.AI after a chatbot inspired by a Game of Thrones character allegedly encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide. “Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and…

On Tuesday, a new SPAC from VC and All-In podcast host Chamath Palihapitiya became a public company. Dubbed with the lofty name “American Exceptionalism,” it raised $345 million with a mission to acquire one or more startups in the fields of energy, AI, crypto/DeFi, or defense, then convert those companies into publicly traded entities. But Palihapitiya wants retail investors to know: He strongly advises you not to buy the stock, even though he has reserved a tiny fraction — just over 1% — to be traded on the public markets for retailer investors, while 98.7% has already been sold to…

Reuters recently published a joint experiment with Harvard, where they asked popular AI chatbots like Grok, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and others to craft the “perfect phishing email.” The generated emails were then sent to 108 volunteers, of whom 11% clicked on the malicious links.With one simple prompt, the researchers were armed with highly persuasive messages capable of fooling real people. The experiment should serve as a stern reality check. As disruptive as phishing has been over the years, AI is transforming it into a faster, cheaper, and more effective threat.For 2026, AI phishing detection needs to become a top priority for…

Tilly Norwood is a London-based actress with about 40,000 Instagram followers. Also, she’s not real — she is an AI-generated character created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6. Eline Van der Velden, the Dutch producer who founded Particle6, introduced the idea of Norwood at the Zurich Film Festival in September. Van der Velden is currently seeking an agent to represent Norwood, who has garnered strong reactions from Hollywood. Actress Emily Blunt — known for her roles in films like “The Devil Wears Prada,” “A Quiet Place,” and “Oppenheimer” — found out about Norwood while recording a…