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New polling from Pew and Gallup paints a striking picture of where Americans stand on artificial intelligence — and it isn't warm. Most people say they don't trust AI systems, and crucially, they don't trust the executives and companies building them either. That gap between Silicon Valley confidence and public skepticism is widening, not closing.
Speaking of that confidence, a journalist recently got rare access to OpenAI's closely guarded San Francisco headquarters. What they found was less supervillain lair and more carefully curated startup campus — ping pong tables, whiteboards, and a studied sense of calm that sits in interesting tension with the scale of what the company claims to be building.
And Amazon is now facing a class action lawsuit over tariff-related pricing. Plaintiffs allege the retail giant collected what they're calling unlawful charges from customers and failed to issue refunds, with the suit claiming Amazon owes hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a legal fight that puts one of the world's largest retailers squarely in the crosshairs of consumer protection law.
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