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An OpenAI engineer has been arrested on federal charges after the company discovered a hidden recording device plugged into a television USB port in an executive meeting room.
OpenAI and Anthropic executives told British lawmakers that voluntary safety pledges are no longer sufficient, advocating for mandatory rules while Google DeepMind and Meta resisted new statutory regimes.
San Francisco startup Niobia is deploying on-premise AI models on manufacturing equipment to identify microscopic defects in semiconductor and battery production lines.
Veteran Internet law professor Eric Goldman broke down the complex legal landscape of web scraping during a Reddit AMA, highlighting tensions between server property claims and open access to information.
Meta announced its Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full frontier models, adding persistent context and error-recovery capabilities aimed at autonomous personal and professional agents.
Canadian software engineer Anthony Sistilli built an automated license plate recognition camera to track police vehicles, prompting a visit from Peel Regional Police over officer safety concerns.
Flock Safety is preparing to cut approximately 270 jobs, or 18 percent of its staff, by the end of October following contract losses and mounting political opposition.
OpenAI has published nearly 400 AI-generated mathematical results across 719 research manuscripts, sparking widespread disorientation among mathematicians who face an overwhelming verification burden.
A coalition of feminist and digital justice organizations has launched a campaign against Meta Platforms, alleging the company is suppressing social media posts related to a civil sexual assault lawsuit at Cornell University.
California has enacted SB 947, barring employers across the state from using automated decision systems as the sole or principal basis for firing or disciplining workers.
Lawmakers have introduced legislation to restrict government access to Flock Safety automated license plate reader networks following reports of protest monitoring and cross-agency data sharing.
A new study indicates that e-scooter users are more prone to severe brain injuries in accidents than motorcyclists, prompting legislative efforts to enhance safety.
The Federal Communications Commission has revised its regulations concerning local television station ownership, moving to a case-by-case approval process.
Authorities in Wisconsin utilized a network of automated license plate readers to monitor a man's movements across state lines, leading to his arrest for marijuana possession.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to eliminate a rule that previously limited a single company's television station ownership to 39% of American households.
AI music platform Suno is introducing audio watermarks and download limits to enhance transparency and combat fraud amidst ongoing legal challenges.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to eliminate the national broadcast ownership cap, replacing it with a granular, case-by-case review process for consolidation proposals.
A group of House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, has voiced apprehension regarding South Korea's recently enacted online regulations, suggesting they could stifle free speech and target American companies.
TikTok attributed the delayed removal of a livestream by blogger Perez Hilton, which reportedly depicted self-harm, to a "moderator error."
The FCC has moved to abolish the 39% cap on television household reach for broadcasters, citing a need for competitive balance against streaming services, a decision drawing criticism and legal challenges over congressional intent.
OpenAI has rejected Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, asserting the lawsuit is a retaliatory measure stemming from Apple's struggles in artificial intelligence development and talent retention.
A new AI model developed by DeepMind and Google Research is demonstrating unprecedented accuracy in forecasting hurricane trajectories and intensity, offering forecasters crucial additional lead time.
A nascent movement is encouraging the deliberate corruption of AI training data to undermine large language models, but experts warn of unintended consequences for critical systems.
A California labor union has initiated legal action against the state regarding new regulations that permit the operation of self-driving trucks on public roads.
A U.S. representative is urging swift passage of legislation that would mandate AI companies to implement shutdown mechanisms for their advanced models.
OpenAI asserts that Apple's own internal security protocols and offboarding procedures undermine the validity of its trade secret lawsuit.
SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund in January, several months before securing a federal land lease for a major data center project in Ohio.
Google's artificial intelligence division has experienced substantial leadership changes, reportedly influenced by a push for faster product development and ethical considerations within the company.
Advanced AI tools for voice dictation are transforming how professionals, including software developers and writers, interact with their computers, offering increased speed and accessibility.
New research indicates that artificial intelligence and large language models are not yet equipped to reliably fix software vulnerabilities.
Thousands of enterprise servers are susceptible to backdoor attacks due to newly discovered and persistent vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs).
After a year-long vacancy, Dr. Schwartz has been confirmed as the new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A federal judge declined to pause the first-of-its-kind state law while xAI's broader constitutional challenge continues.
The temporary generators will remain while a permanent 1.2-gigawatt gas plant is built for the Colossus data centers.
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
A federal court is weighing whether the government can ban Claude over military-use restrictions and public criticism without stronger proof.
Two browser releases fixed more flaws than the previous 23 versions combined, changing the economics of vulnerability discovery.
The agency says health information was sent to Meta and Snap through tracking tools without adequate notice or consent.
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Andon Labs' year-long benchmark shows frontier agents can discover aggressive strategies when profit is the only clear objective.
Developers worldwide will be able to receive an age range without collecting a user's exact birth date.
The agreement ends a multiyear case against the World Federation of Advertisers after a federal court dismissed X's competition claims.
The platform analyzes calls, messages and CRM outcomes to turn effective human techniques into reusable sales and support playbooks.
The dispute centers on source code and product plans shared during a year-long enterprise trial that ended without a commercial agreement.
The payment resolves a civil case brought by EcommerceBytes writers Ina and David Steiner over a 2019 harassment campaign.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
The 5,458-acre Arizona proving ground was the centerpiece of Apple's abandoned car program. Waymo paid nearly double what Apple did in 2021.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
The Dreaming research preview reviews completed sessions and writes memory updates intended to reduce repeated mistakes.
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
