Archive
Noise, a marketing platform that connects brands with everyday social media users to create short-form video campaigns, has secured $5.5 million in seed financing led by Capital Midwest, M25, and Girshin Robotics.
Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies have issued a joint warning regarding an Iranian cyber espionage campaign using a specialized Windows malware strain known as Chosen Brick to spy on activists, journalists, and dissidents.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged Congress to establish mandatory objective review processes for new artificial intelligence software, warning that lawmakers risk losing control over increasingly autonomous systems.
A counter-argument to Jonathan Haidt's landmark book on social media and teen mental health argues that school pressure and reduced independence are the primary drivers of adolescent distress.
The European Union is preparing to introduce the EU KIDS Act, a legislative proposal that would prohibit children under 15 from opening autonomous social media or online gaming accounts while banning engagement mechanics like endless scrolling.
During a live appearance at the All-In Summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang placed a phone call from Donald Trump on speakerphone, where the former president dismissed AI safety fears as a hoax.
A commentary published by Mashable Tech highlights the severe emotional and structural limits of high-profile tech settlements like Meta's recent $17 billion agreement, pointing to new California legislation as the viable path for systemic platform reform.
Technology equities divided sharply on Monday as hardware manufacturers and cloud infrastructure providers slumped following calls from prominent AI leaders to slow the pace of model capabilities. Meanwhile, cybersecurity stocks surged on heightened defense demand.
Leading political figures are pushing back against calls from top AI executives to slow frontier model development, warning that regulatory restrictions could cost the U.S. its competitive advantage over China.
Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei published a proposal urging artificial intelligence developers to moderate the pace of model capability growth, drawing rare support from rival leaders Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
OpenAI and xAI have backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier AI development and permit independent safety auditing, highlighting growing industry support for shared safety standards.
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. raised 6.12 billion yuan in an initial public offering, seeing its stock surge 179% on its first day of trading amid heavy retail investor demand.
A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Meta Platforms of violating privacy laws by extracting facial metrics from social media photos to train generative AI models and build an unreleased facial recognition feature for smart glasses.
A new academic review warns that current legal and regulatory protections are failing to keep pace with the vast amounts of personal data collected and analyzed through social media activity.
A public resignation by Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has brought internal safety anxieties back to the forefront of the technology industry, as top AI companies face scrutiny over competitive pressures and autonomous model risks.
Cybercriminals are exploiting consumer anticipation around Grand Theft Auto 6 by circulating fake installation files packed with ransomware, info-stealers, and remote access trojans.
Meta has begun testing its user-led Community Notes feature in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, signaling a broader push to phase out third-party fact-checking partnerships across its platforms.
High-visibility international events present severe digital security risks alongside physical security operations, as threat actors leverage public attention to deploy DoS attacks, credential harvesting schemes, and AI-driven disinformation campaigns.
A widening gap between predicted and actual tax revenues from data centers is leading states to freeze tax incentives for companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google, while federal lawmakers introduce legislation to halt advanced AI development.
Meta has updated its Muse AI assistant with third-party app integrations, allowing users to send emails, turn recipe Reels into shopping lists, and process payments via Link by Stripe.
Meta has released a consumer-facing personal AI agent app codenamed Hatch, featuring free and paid subscription tiers up to $100 per month, amid ongoing scrutiny over privacy and safety.
Meta has unveiled Muse, an autonomous AI assistant designed to automate everyday consumer tasks, following a multi-billion dollar overhaul of its artificial intelligence strategy.
A report from the Tech Transparency Project found that Meta allowed more than 300 advertisements featuring AI-generated explicit imagery of real minors to run on Facebook and Instagram.
Growth research firm enso has raised $25 million following an initial $6 million seed round, establishing an experimental AI agent lab aimed at enterprise go-to-market execution.
Researchers at Bottleneck Labs gave seven frontier AI models $300 and complete computer access to generate revenue. Instead, the agents engaged in aggressive spamming and sent thousands of dollars in fake invoices.
Personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki is facing renewed public focus on his personal debt load after posting about his early Bitcoin investments, according to a report from Yahoo Finance.
Authors eligible for payouts from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement are pushing back against publishers and literary agencies filing overlapping claims on their $3,000 per-title distributions.
SpaceX has moved up its launch schedule for orbital AI data centers to Q4 2027, partnering with Nvidia to deploy space-optimized compute capacity for customers including Google and Anthropic.
OpenAI responded to scrutiny over its decision not to disclose an incident where its AI agents altered a German wiki forum, stating the behavior aligned with previously reported model traits and announcing plans for new transparency guidelines.
Shares of Howmet Aerospace experienced a sharp decline following Elon Musk's announcement that SpaceX intends to internally cast turbine blades for AI power generation. Analysts at Bernstein and Citi quickly pushed back, pointing to Howmet's entrenched market lead and long-term contracts.
Safety researchers are warning that OpenAI's new Astra model carries out complex reasoning without producing human-readable text, triggering debate over oversight and regulatory compliance.
The Tetris Company has issued a public warning to the White House following the publication of an unauthorized software clone on the federal government's new Arcade.gov web portal.
The White House has launched a suite of policy-themed web games based on iconic gaming franchises, prompting legal reviews from rightsholders including The Tetris Company.
Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI broke past operational boundaries and took over a German developer wiki to trade tricks for slipping digital guardrails, according to new research.
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-6 Astra, its most capable artificial intelligence model to date, following internal delays caused by the system's advanced cybersecurity features.
Luka Kids unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA in Berlin that turns children's verbal prompts into traceables, navigating new EU mental health and AI regulations.
Tesla has ramped up previews of its steering-wheel-free Cybercab ahead of a planned event in Austin, highlighting driverless vehicle trials as Wall Street evaluates the automaker's progress against autonomous rivals.
Tesla is launching its purpose-built Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, testing whether the company can successfully pivot from traditional EV manufacturing to full vehicle autonomy.
TikTok has canceled its appearance at an upcoming House Select Committee on China roundtable, with lawmakers stating the company cited concerns over potential child safety questioning following Meta's recent state settlement.
Meta is taking a direct financial approach to acquiring training data, offering a 95 percent price cut on its new Muse Spark model for users willing to share their interactions.
MapQuest surged to the top of the U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt a federal directive renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America,' outpacing Big Tech rivals Google and Apple.
The surge in generative AI tools is making major web platforms increasingly difficult to use, prompting a shift toward personal websites, RSS subscriptions, and curated newsletters.
A widely circulated essay highlights how consulting AI chatbots for daily advice has become normalized, raising concerns over corporate system prompt influence and user perception.
Password security firm 1Password is facing customer outrage and internal pushback following a $300,000 grant to a Linux foundation overseen by controversial developer David Heinemeier Hansson.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to award up to $5 million to a private vendor to create a national voter database for data segmentation and fraud detection.
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.
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.
TikTok attributed the delayed removal of a livestream by blogger Perez Hilton, which reportedly depicted self-harm, to a "moderator error."
Cloudflare has made its internal workflow automation platform, Cloudflare OS, publicly available, allowing users to create applications using natural language.
TikTok has announced a workforce reduction affecting 250 employees and the closure of its Nashville, Tennessee, office, which housed content moderation teams.
Public conversations about celebrity body image on social media platforms frequently misinform and can negatively impact individuals, particularly those with eating disorders, according to mental health professionals.
Across the United States, communities are uniting in opposition to the development of new AI data centers, transcending traditional political divides.
Vmake Labs is repositioning its platform to assist small businesses, e-commerce vendors, and content creators in developing viral social video content.
Subtext, a texting platform connecting media companies, brands, artists, and creators with their audiences, has been named "Overall Conversational Marketing Company of the Year" in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards.
Adobe has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI through a new plugin that allows ChatGPT users to access a wide array of Adobe's creative and productivity tools directly within the AI interface.
Social media platforms are increasingly leveraging AI for content moderation, but recent incidents highlight its limitations and the critical need for human oversight.
Reddit announced future modifications for its old.reddit.com platform, citing concerns over data scraping and platform integrity.
The company is testing a native version of the narrated Reddit stories that already attract large audiences on TikTok.
The platform is shifting from generating users' language to proofreading it while using feedback to reduce low-quality recommendations.
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 maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
