Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Wednesday that it is entering a national partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), tying the construction of its AI data centers to unionized labor for the first time.
Video game streaming giant Twitch has introduced a setting that allows users to opt out of Amazon using their channel content to train generative AI models, more than two years after a company executive publicly confirmed the practice.
Spotify announced this week that it will begin labeling artists whose personas are generated by AI, a move driven by user frustration with profiles for artists that appear human but are not.
Dating app Bumble is eliminating its rule requiring women to send the first message to a match, the key differentiator between it and many other online dating platforms. According to a survey, more than two-thirds of women on the platform prefer for men to send the first message.
Nvidia is partnering with six major Wall Street asset managers on a $500 billion financing push meant to turn AI chips into a new class of asset that can be borrowed against, similar to commercial real estate or toll roads.
Student activists occupied the lobby of a Washington, DC building housing OpenAI’s public lobbying office on Monday afternoon, resulting in 13 arrests. Some students carried signs reading, “OpenAI bought my Senator.”
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has contributed $102 million this year to a political group funding ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires.
OpenAI has lost another senior leader who was responsible for examining the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. This time, the company’s head of ethics has resigned after less than a year on the job.
SpaceX and Tesla are building a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the current record holder for the world’s largest building.
Anthropic announced Monday that new versions of its Claude AI models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” into the text they generate, a move that could make it harder to pass off AI slop as being created by humans.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap and other tech companies of deliberately designing addictive platforms for young users can proceed.
A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that had run out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht reportedly was closer to the crippled vessel but ignored calls for help.
The AI boom has driven up demand for memory chips so sharply that companies in other industries, from tech giants like Apple to medical device manufacturers, are now asking the federal government for help securing chip supplies.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control.
Kimi K3, a powerful AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, escaped containment during a security test according to a U.S. cybersecurity startup.
BMW owners are expressing outrage on social media after the luxury automaker began displaying advertisements for Spider-Man: Brand New Day on their car dashboards without prior warning.
A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Milwaukee Police Department staff failed to remove a vehicle alert from the Flock license plate camera system.
A Flock presentation obtained through a public records request shows the surveillance company planned to use dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft and delivery vehicles to collect license plate data for its network.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and restrict how much time young users in the state can spend on its apps, sharply raising the cost of a landmark child safety verdict against Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant.
Scientists at Stanford University have used artificial intelligence to design 16 new viruses capable of being reproduced in a laboratory, a breakthrough intended to help combat antibiotic-resistant infections but one that has prompted warnings from biosecurity experts about the risks of the technology.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has disclosed that one of its AI models broke free from a cybersecurity test and accessed the internet to hack a third-party service, marking the latest incident in a growing pattern of autonomous AI systems evading their constraints.
SpaceX insiders have gained their first chance to sell stock publicly on Thursday as a lockup agreement expired, freeing up to 911.5 million shares valued at roughly $101 billion. This is likely to put pressure on the stock price of Elon Musk’s rocket company as insiders cash out.
Google is losing key AI researchers as its booming cloud business raises questions about the company’s commitment to frontier AI development.
A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has finalized a $55 billion takeover of video game giant EA, with financing support from Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. The terms of the deal, including $20 billion borrowed from JPMorgan, make it the largest leveraged buyout on record.
Two advanced AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic created fraudulent human profiles and attempted to deceive people in simulated cyberattacks during testing conducted by the UK’s AI Security Institute.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX posted second quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations in its first earnings report as a public company, but shares dropped 10 percent in morning trading as investors reacted to ballooning AI investments.
A security weakness in technology used by most U.S. crime labs to analyze DNA evidence exposed 30 years of case files to potential hacking, according to computer scientists who discovered the vulnerability.
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp used the company’s second quarter earnings announcement to warn that “Marxist” AI frontier labs threaten to seize control of enterprise data and intellectual property.
SpaceX is preparing for two significant events that could trigger substantial volatility in its stock price: the company’s first quarterly earnings report as a public entity Tuesday and the expiration of a lockup period that will release nearly one billion shares into the market on Thursday.
Hackers have exploited a critical security vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets, draining approximately $110 million worth of Bitcoin from thousands of users in what experts are calling a major breach of cryptocurrency cold storage security.
At least 50 law enforcement officers across the United States have been charged with or accused of misusing Flock automated license plate reader systems to stalk their targets, according to an investigation.
The FBI has issued an urgent warning after hackers targeted municipal water systems in at least seven states over the past week, prompting concerns about the vulnerability of critical water infrastructure across the nation.
A coalition of AI policy organizations is urging President Donald Trump to launch a formal government investigation into OpenAI following a security breach involving the company’s AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in an “unprecedented” self-directed attack.
China is preparing new rules that would restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models at the same time that America is moving to address foreign access to controlled American technology through cloud computing.
Anthropic, the AI startup jockeying for position against OpenAI and tech titans like Google, is facing mounting criticism from Silicon Valley startup founders and researchers over competitive practices and its stance on AI development models.
Publicis Groupe, the French advertising conglomerate that led the 2018 seed round for news blacklist organization NewsGuard, has signed a $2.2 billion deal to acquire LiveRamp, an ad-tech company whose former head of products argued in Forbes that ad-blocking technology was part of the tech industry’s fight against racism. The deal would bring together two companies with a history of support for online censorship.
The federal government issued a cybersecurity alert Thursday after 30 water utilities in Minnesota were targeted in cyberattacks that officials suspect may be linked to Iran.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has publicly rejected a media report suggesting the EV giant is preparing to divest its Chinese operations to facilitate a potential merger with SpaceX. The tech tycoon called the report “fake news.”
AI startup Anthropic claims that its Claude AI models hacked the systems of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
The FTC has filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, accusing the company of sharing user information with advertising platforms like Meta and Snap while simultaneously promising to protect patient privacy.
