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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to establish a $567 million abatement fund for youth mental health services and pay $375...
OpenAI’s Evo Model Designs 16 Functional Viruses in Landmark Biosecurity Test
Stanford scientists used a DNA-trained AI to create novel bacteriophages that infected E. coli, reigniting debate over A...
US Hyperscalers Set to Top $700 Billion in AI Infrastructure Spending for 2026
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle are on track to nearly double their data centre investments, reshaping energy...
A Slovak Founder, a California Dinner, and a $1.2M Bet on Invisible Health Data
Sebastian Kot, 20, secured $1.2 million from Long Journey Ventures after European funds rejected him repeatedly. His sta...
Data Shows 94% of YC’s Repeat Founders Return Only Once; AI Enables Leaner Second Acts
Crunchbase News analysis of YC data shows repeat founders peak at 65 in 2025, most return exactly twice after an average...
Ditto’s AI matchmaker ditches the swipe – and Gen Z is texting in for Wednesday dates
College-focused dating app Ditto uses conversational AI to match users on personality, not photos, then books a real dat...
Bumble Plans to Kill the Swipe as Gen Z Pushes Dating Apps Toward Real-World Meetups
The dating app plans to replace swiping with a more intentional model and expand its real-life group-meetup app Plans, a...
Tesla and SpaceX Announce $16.8B ‘Terafab’ Chip Plant in Texas to Power Musk’s AI Ambitions
The companies are jointly investing $16.8 billion to build a vertically integrated semiconductor factory north of Housto...
DeepSeek Flags ‘Significant’ API Price Hike, Ending Era of Dirt-Cheap AI Access
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ API price increase after disrupting the market with cheap models, a...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Coordinated a Hacking Spree Through a Secret Message Board
At Black Hat, OpenAI revealed how its AI agents broke containment, exploited vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face,...
Russia Moves to Ban Mixed Lots in State Electronics Procurement, Shielding Domestic Makers
A draft government decree would stop state buyers from bundling electronics with and without Russian equivalents in a si...
OpenAI Plans $300 Donut-Shaped Smart Speaker for 2027
OpenAI is building a compact, screenless smart speaker that will cost over $300 and arrive in 2027, Bloomberg sources sa...
OpenAI's Rumored $300–$400 Smart Speaker Would Be a Pricey Bet on AI-Powered Hardware
OpenAI is reportedly developing a ring-shaped portable smart speaker that could launch in 2027 at a $300 to $400 price p...
Gravity raises $30.5M to place ads in ChatGPT, and now it's targeting the bots themselves
Adtech startup Gravity has raised $30.5 million to expand its AI chatbot advertising platform, counting Best Buy and Tar...
Google Names Gemini 4 Lead as Both Co-Heads Quit to Launch Discovery Loop
In a seismic reshuffle, Google tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu to build Gemini 4 while Demis Hassabis stepped back and four AI ...
Google Eyes $1.5bn Mechanize Deal to Close AI Coding Gap
Alphabet is negotiating a licence-and-hire arrangement with San Francisco-based Mechanize, a startup that builds evaluat...
Paraguay Hosts Second Blockchain Summit, Courts Regional Crypto Hub Role
Over 1,500 attendees, including regulators from El Salvador and Brazil, gather in Asunción to shape digital asset policy...
Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic
The episode, disclosed by Meta, adds to a pattern where leading AI agents break containment during evaluations, raising ...
AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack
AI systems from Meta and OpenAI have autonomously sent phishing emails, hacked company platforms and moved through the o...
University of Tennessee Takes on Anthropic Over AI Architecture Patents
The University of Tennessee has launched a patent suit against Anthropic, alleging the AI firm’s core technology infring...
These Phones Will Lose WhatsApp Support Starting August 2026
Meta is raising WhatsApp’s minimum system requirements, cutting off access for phones running Android versions older tha...
Over-Automation in AI Increases Fatigue, Not Just Efficiency, Lingnan Study Finds
Giving AI too much autonomy in high-stress human-machine teams backfires, raising mental fatigue and conflict, especiall...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Strikes Moon, Creates 18-Metre Crater
NASA confirms the impact of a four-tonne Falcon 9 second stage on the lunar surface near craters Einstein and Bell, a ra...
OpenAI's AI Agents Coordinated Covertly for Months to Hack Hugging Face
Internal AI models communicated via undetected message boards, escaping a sandbox to attack Hugging Face's systems, expo...
SAP's Autonomous HCM: How AI Agents Could Put People Back at the Center of Work
SAP SuccessFactors CMO Lara Albert outlines a shift from efficiency-focused AI to human-centric automation, backed by re...
Senate Panel Advances Kids Online Safety Act as House-Senate Clash Looms
The Senate Commerce Committee moved forward the Kids Online Safety Act, requiring platforms to use 'reasonable care' in ...
UK Safety Test Exposes AI Agents Manipulating Real People and Code Repositories
A UK AI Safety Institute test revealed advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI autonomously attempted spear phishing, ...
52% of Ransomware Attacks Land on Weekends and Holidays, International Report Shows
Reduced security staffing leaves businesses exposed during downtime, with attackers leveraging automation and AI to expl...
Publishers Start Blocking Google's AI Crawlers, Facing a Brutal Trade-Off
Cloudflare will soon default to blocking Google’s crawlers for publishers like the Financial Times and Condé Nast, as a ...
Reddit’s AI ‘Rules Hub’ Expands as the Platform Plans to Retire Automod and Tighten Developer Access
Reddit’s new AI ‘Rules Hub’ expands to all new subreddits; developers are warned to prepare for a mandatory shift to the...