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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have par…
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. T…
Tesla rolls out an emergency drive-away feature after Supercharger shooting
Tesla's new feature will let you drive away with the Supercharger still connected in case of emergencies.
If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?
San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that's chang…
AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a…
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is my childhood podracing dream come true
The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while va…
Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings
In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It…
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Ama…
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the …
FDA approves artificial heart valve for kids that grows as they do
The FDA has approved a new artificial heart valve that eliminates the need for multiple surgeries in children with certain congenital heart defects.
The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software
AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial int…
Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one …
OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports
The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to …
Amazon pledges $1bn over five years to US data centre communities
Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programm…
TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
Can it be Mini LED without a FALD backlight?
America isn’t short of electricity. It’s short of places to plug in fast enough.
On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a …
Discord opens its ad business to smaller brands, Ars Technica reports
Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for plann…
Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland
Caverion Finland has agreed to design and build a substation for Nebius’s new data centre in Mäntsälä, southern Finland, in a deal valued at about €15 million. The company announc…
AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Speech is now available in public…
Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state
California has joined nine other US states in approving balcony solar installations.
Microsoft’s X account hacked in crypto pump-and-dump scheme
On Thursday, unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto …
The difference between a liar and a bullshitter
Back in 1986, a Princeton philosopher named Harry Frankfurt published a short essay with a title you don’t expect to see in an academic journal, “On Bullshit.” It stayed largely i…
New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal
New Mexico's attorney argued that the penalties Meta has to pay need to be significant enough to make an impact on the company.
AI broke the economics of software. Vayu wants to be the first to tell a CFO which customers are losing them money
Here is a problem the software industry did not have three years ago. A customer signs a contract for an AI product. They use it heavily, which is what every vendor wants. Every o…