Meta Apparently Seeks to Spread Settlement Pain to Its Competitors—With Snapchat Conspicuously Absent

If YouTube, TikTok, and Snap all join, it could actually cost Meta more money. So why bother pleading with Snap?

Republican Senator Launches Investigation Into Flock as Backlash Sweeps Country

The company reportedly scans 20 billion vehicles each month.

Australia’s recording association bans AI-made music from charts

Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed, so long as they’re “substantially human made.”

You Can Thank Lin Shaye for ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’

‘Insidious’ franchise star Lin Shaye pushed back after Sony initially canceled the series’ sixth installment.

Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners

The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration’s original tariff regime.

OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report

Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.

Ukraine Butters Up Musk With Highest State Honor for Starlink

The award comes as the Ukrainian military has been trying to convince Musk to expand Starlink access into Russia.

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia’s predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn’t be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue – Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into […]

Israel Seeds Internet With Articles From Opaque Group to Influence AI Chatbots

“Accountability for the material is not anonymous,” the group claims about its anonymous articles.