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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon; plus, PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover
Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.
Also, after reporting better-than-expected Q2 r...
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive; plus, Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam
Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.
Also, Apple is facing a...
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack; plus, the hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
Hugging Face's CEO Clem Delangue said, "the first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business; plus, OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter; plus, if you pay a hacker’s ransom, they’ll come back for more
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Also, the latest research reaffirmed that ha...
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned; plus, Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’; plus, Hugging Face confirmed a breach
Nolan said, “I think AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside.” He later described the technology as “a transparent horse, it’s...
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal; plus BP done with climate tech and X cracking down thieving creators
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Also, BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 2...
UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group; plus, why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six mo...
OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move; plus, Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?
Also, an old...
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still mat...
Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI; plus, Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long afte...
Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but with a twist; plus, ‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even...
Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps; plus, Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom
With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human; plus, hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose t...
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk; Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Also, the hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report u...
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
Learn more about your ad choice...
Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become; plus, Mark Zuckerberg said AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.
US government says it got hacked — again; Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company
A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may ris...
Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction; plus, the ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring
Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of...
The AI jobs debate just got messier; plus, 92 GW of new electricity supply threatened with red tape
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the...
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short; Rocket Lab continues its buying spree; and why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia
Ford execs said, "mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
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It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore; plus, Novak Djokovic has a new job
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collect...
Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x; plus, Klue may have solved one problem but have another
Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.
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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom; plus, Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII
Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.
Also, new details have em...
Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel art broadcasts; plus, the AI world is getting ‘loopy’
Ribbie lets you follow along live with MLB games with a delightful, arcade-inspired interface.
Also, the loop takes agentic AI a step fur...
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab; Instagram looks to take on streaming services
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting...
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search; Did Polymarket pay creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets; and
So ... what's your In the Weights score? Check here.
Also, many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Po...
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight; plus, Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
Als...
Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff; plus, Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it
WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referr...
DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’; plus, Sundar Pichai booed at Stanford commencement
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
Also, Stanford graduates booed and walked...
Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models; plus, Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic’s models Fable and Mythos,...
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general; Meta unwinding its $2B Manus deal; and Amazon's CEO raised Anthropic model concerns
It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.
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xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims; plus, Microsoft taps Alt Carbon for carbon removal
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic I...
Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable; plus, how memory tools can make AI models worse
Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
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Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store; Rivian started deliveries of its R2 SUV; and so long FAANG, hello MANGOS.
Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.
Also, Rivian founder and CEO RJ Sc...
Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree support China’s military; plus, Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers; and OpenAI filed for IPO
The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why
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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches; plus, OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’
IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuse...
Chinese spies are using LinkedIn to lure Westerners into sharing sensitive information; Waymo as getaway vehicle, and Uber's data-collection vehicles
The advisory warns that Chinese spies are using public job search platforms to recruit people with access to non-public information.
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The world’s largest privately owned laser just turned on; plus, Uber caps employee AI spending and Martin Scorsese becomes the latest Hollywood voice for AI
Fusion startup Xcimer fired up the world's largest privately owned laser.
Also, Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reporte...