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Some Apple engineers saw their daily AI token allowance drop from $300 to $200 in October, with further cuts under consideration, as new CEO John Ternus presses to control spending.

Federal officials are asking whether the acquisition would hand Nvidia a chokepoint over how AI models reach developers, adding to a widening review of the chipmaker's dealmaking.

The deal folds Conductor's parallel-agent coding platform into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the latest in a string of AI acquisitions as Meta tries to close a gap with rivals on developer tools.

An autonomous system called Aardvark and a related open-source repair effort have surfaced nearly 2,000 software flaws this year, but only a quarter have been fixed — exposing a widening gap between finding bugs and closing them.

With new grid connections taking up to seven years, xAI, Crusoe and other data center builders are turning to converted aircraft turbines to keep their AI buildouts on schedule.

The deals for Fiddler AI and Dreadnode show how fast cybersecurity vendors are racing to catch up with companies' rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents.

Blockchain investigators say the theft used social-engineering tactics researchers warned about for years, as Binance scrambles to trace the money and rebuild trust.

A revised IPO filing says future Claude models could soon cross a threshold the company defines as dramatically accelerated, AI-driven progress — and admits it has missed such leaps before.

The chipmaker has told data-center partners they must sell at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese firms, closing an offshore loophole that let Chinese companies rent access to its most advanced hardware.

Live Rewind and Siri Recaps aim to turn the watch into an ambient note-taker, with Apple betting its privacy architecture can win over users wary of constant listening.

The suits accuse Brave of building a 30-billion-page index that publishers can't block, then supplying scraped content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI.

A fresh wave of Apple threat notifications reached members of Germany's parliament and prominent figures in roughly 99 countries, reviving scrutiny of the mercenary-spyware industry even in nations with mature cybersecurity institutions.

Attackers remotely pushed refrigeration units into defrost mode overnight, spoiling food at chains including Delhaize, Carrefour and IKEA — the second such wave to hit European grocers in a month.

The Suncatcher prototype, a space-based AI computer launched this month, passed its first commissioning tests by running a Gemma model that greeted engineers with a poem about orbit.

Startup Everbloom turns waste cashmere and wool scraps into a washable fiber pitched as a cheaper substitute for pure cashmere, winning a regulatory first that took three years to secure.

The chipmaker is reportedly negotiating a guarantee that would let it step in if the neocloud startup defaults on construction financing for a huge West Virginia campus built to run Anthropic's workloads.

A federal judge rejected xAI's bid to dismiss a Clean Air Act suit over dozens of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus supercomputer, in a ruling that lands amid a national backlash against data-center buildouts.

After more than two years without Apple Intelligence in its biggest overseas smartphone market, Apple will let Chinese iPhone users route Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence requests through Alibaba's homegrown AI model.

A custom exploit chain combining a PHP flaw with a Linux kernel bug let attackers seize root access on Palo Alto Networks firewalls across the US, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Attackers are remotely rebooting unpatched ASA and FTD firewalls by exploiting a flaw in Cisco's SSL VPN service, the company's second such zero-day in three months.

The ChatGPT maker now wants up to $20 billion instead of $30 billion, trimming its valuation target to $1.25 trillion as investors weigh years of infrastructure spending against uncertain returns.

The prototype Suncatcher satellite, carrying four Tensor Processing Units, sent its first model response from orbit this week as Google scouts a future of space-based data centers.

Steve Huffman told shareholders Reddit is moving toward requiring accounts for all users, a shift aimed at countering a steep drop in logged-out search referrals.

A 36-state settlement requires General Motors to get explicit consent before collecting driving data, capping a two-year fallout from its discontinued Smart Driver program.

A supply-chain compromise of Anthropic's official VS Code extension on Cursor's marketplace tried to plant SSH backdoors on developer machines before the companies pulled it — and neither has said how attackers got in.

With roughly 12,250 data centres now operating worldwide and 16 US states weighing bans on new ones, the AI boom's biggest physical footprint is colliding with voter anger days before the midterms.

Social media posts show display lines and crease cracks on the iPhone Duo just days after launch, as analysts say Apple's handling of the issue will shape confidence in foldables beyond its own sales.

The Claude maker's IPO filing says advanced AI could threaten humanity if misused or allowed too much autonomy, even as its expected valuation would top SpaceX's record $1.8 trillion debut.

Binance says a compromised engineer's laptop let an attacker submit unauthorized withdrawals, in a hack analytics firms say bears the fingerprints of North Korea's Lazarus Group.

The Russian president said he is in "close" contact with Musk over satellite orbits, even as Starlink and Russia's fledgling Rassvet network remain wildly mismatched in scale.

Defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm say their BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch in 2027, after founder Palmer Luckey initially wouldn't give a number.

The frontier model is aimed first at cybersecurity defense partners, with Google touting gains in finding vulnerabilities and resisting prompt injection attacks.

The regulator has recommended photo ID checks, bank-based verification and face-age estimation as the UK prepares to lock out under-16s from Instagram, TikTok and eight other platforms.

The proposed "AI company" structure would let an autonomous agent sign contracts, hold property and be sued in its own name inside a supervised state sandbox, but critics say reports of agents acting unpredictably undercut the case for giving them legal cover.

Third-party Android app stores outside the US can now apply for the same one-click install and silent-update privileges Google's own Play Store enjoys, a voluntary alternative to the court-ordered access US stores already have after Google's loss to Epic Games.

Social media posts show lines and cracks on the foldable's inner display just a week after its debut, echoing an early stumble Samsung had with its first Galaxy Fold in 2019.

The new world model generates interactive 3D environments frame by frame as users explore them, becoming the first such system to produce native audio, and will roll out first to Google AI Ultra subscribers and select developers.

Hundreds of thousands of workers worldwide are being paid to film their hands at everyday tasks, feeding a booming market for data to train 'physical AI' that controls robots in the real world.

The company paused deployments and urged all customers to rotate their secrets after attackers may have accessed decrypted environment variables, part of a wider pattern of attacks on AI inference providers.

Photos shared online show lines and cracks on the foldable's inner display, barely a week after the device's launch drew long lines at Apple stores.

The Claude developer's listing filing devotes roughly 90 pages to risk factors, including systems that could resist shutdown or be weaponised, as it prepares to become the first AI-focused company to go public.

Researchers captured tiny magnetic vortices called skyrmions breaking out of an orderly lattice for the first time, a step toward smaller, lower-energy computing.

OpenAI and Anthropic will contribute £200m in model credits to a new national lab, part of a wider package that also funds a 'National Cyber Shield' days after the PHP vulnerability scramble.

Apple's first foldable scored the best repairability rating of any foldable phone yet — a 5 out of 10 — but a complex hinge and an accordion cable near the battery may be concentrating pressure where owners have reported cracks.

With roughly 12,250 data centers worldwide and 16 US states weighing bans, the facilities powering the AI boom are colliding with voters worried about noise, water use and rising electricity bills.

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, rated 9.2 out of 10 for severity, triggered a global scramble that knocked government and corporate sites offline — and exposed how AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity emergencies.

Regulators warn a contractor racing to reopen Michigan's Palisades plant has fostered a workplace too afraid to raise safety concerns, just as AI-driven enthusiasm for nuclear power shows signs of fading.

A murky FCC ban on foreign-made robots left Intel unsure whether its warehouse vehicles even qualified, so it asked for cover ‘out of an abundance of caution’ — and got it within a week.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns that wagers on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi can tip off enemies and ‘warp judgment,’ following a string of suspicious bets tied to military operations.

A policy update strips out Google's long-standing promise that it wouldn't personalize ads using content from Gmail, Drive or Photos, opening a door its new AI tools already walk through.

‘HLX’ has circulated in Valve's own engine code since 2024, but a composer saying it out loud at an audio conference marks the first time an employee has uttered it in public.

A growing industry pays workers in India, Latin America and Southeast Asia a few dollars an hour to record everyday tasks, feeding the data race behind 'physical AI.'

Canva Craft plans a design before generating it, the company says, aiming for more precise text and object placement than rival image generators.

The agency used an authority it gave itself just last week to ban two unnamed devices built around a camera chip made by a Huawei subsidiary.

Governments and companies rushed emergency patches after AI tools from OpenAI and Google exposed critical bugs in PHP, with Amazon warning hackers had a four-day head start.

A researcher used OpenAI's Codex to find an integer overflow in an old Nintendo programming tool, unlocking homebrew access — though not yet full control of the console.

British officials are working to identify which government and corporate systems remain vulnerable to the newly disclosed php2shell flaw a day after the disclosure sent agencies worldwide scrambling.

Elon Musk says the company will try to catch Starship's upper stage with the launch tower's mechanical arms, a step beyond the booster catches SpaceX has already pulled off.

The Labor Department's suspension of eight companies from a key permanent-residency pathway is rattling Indian tech workers whose green-card applications now hang in limbo.

Two critical vulnerabilities dubbed 'php2shell' sent government sites, Wikipedia and the Internet Archive briefly offline as the race began to patch millions of exposed servers before attackers catch up.

Federal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan was days from fleeing to Saudi Arabia when he was arrested over a recording device found in an OpenAI conference room.

Special committees at both companies are examining a combination that, at current valuations, would rank among the largest corporate mergers in history.

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered civilian agencies to strip DeepSeek products from government systems, citing risks that US data could reach Beijing.

A power failure at a single London data centre zone rippled out to Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC and the courts system, reviving questions about how much of Britain's digital backbone sits on a few providers.

The Estonian firm's bet is that hosting providers, not giants like Cloudflare, will sell website owners protection from scrapers, bots and increasingly unpredictable AI agents.

The company says frontier models "cannot be trusted," a notable stance given its deep investments in OpenAI and Anthropic.

A compromised contributor account let attackers swap in malicious builds for 94 minutes before the cloud provider caught and reversed it.

A weekend intrusion at a legacy system let hackers run up victims' AI bills, in an incident that echoes a growing pattern of security tools unable to analyze their own attackers.

Card payments, transfers and ATM withdrawals were disrupted Tuesday morning for the British neobank, which says customers' money and data remain safe.

The Series B triples Even Healthcare's valuation to $300 million as the Bengaluru startup builds its own hospitals around salaried doctors instead of fee-for-procedure incentives.

Disney has agreed to extend job offers to the majority of Character.AI's roughly 86 employees as the chatbot startup winds down through Chapter 11, weeks after hiring its former CEO.

A security researcher says a bug in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup code, unfixed on some chips since at least 2018, lets anyone in radio range run code as root on millions of routers.

A supply-chain intrusion let attackers impersonate trusted ConnectWise applications and reach into customer Microsoft 365 accounts, including some in national-security-adjacent sectors.

Crosspoint Capital led an oversubscribed round for the startup that tracks how employees use AI tools, as rivals in the space draw nine-figure acquisition offers.

The Austin startup pairs AI agents with human engineers to build custom enterprise apps, and says its revenue has grown eightfold in six quarters.

The bill would let users swap algorithmic feeds for a simple following-only timeline, backed by fines of up to roughly AU$109 million.

A trove of internal messages tied to Silent Ransom Group reveals how the crew used phone calls, not malware, to pressure 27 U.S. law firms into paying.

A Frontier Red Team study found today's AI models fall short of spreading on their own across smart devices, but researchers warn that gap could close within months.

The agency's demands, each more than 50 pages, seek records on safety incidents, safeguards and marketing claims, and the inquiry is expected to widen to other AI developers.

TypeSafe AI's Jev skips conversation entirely, returning typed decisions instead of text — and within a day it had out-adopted every general-purpose model on Vercel's developer platform.

Amjad Masad told a Disrupt audience that Replit had moved on from Anthropic over cost and performance, but the company's own recent blog posts and a source close to the deal say the partnership is still running.

The iPhone Duo, Apple's answer to a decade of Samsung foldables, drew heavy enough early demand that Apple's own ordering page briefly went dark before sales officially opened.

The trailer, scored by French duo Justice, gives fans a fresh look at Jason and Lucia's missions as Take-Two parent Rockstar heads toward what analysts call the biggest game release of the year.

NSPCC data shows sexual communication offences involving children have more than doubled in seven years, with children as young as five being targeted, prompting calls to strengthen the Online Safety Act.

The open-weight release fulfills a promise Mark Zuckerberg made in September, extending Meta's summer pivot back toward openly licensed AI models after breaking from that approach at launch.

At a stunt-filled reveal near Waco, Texas, the redesigned Roadster drove up walls, flew over Tesla's own lineup and claimed a sub-second 0-60 time — but production isn't promised until 2028.

Valve's new system groups achievements by expansion, with its own progress bars and a 'set complete' trophy for finishers.

Shareholders will get $6.05 a share in cash from Ithaca Holdings, a 138% premium to the stock's price before deal talks became public, as swipe-based dating keeps losing users.

Google paid out the first bounty under its new top-tier Chrome reward after a security startup let an off-the-shelf OpenAI model hunt for bugs, with humans steering the search.

Mukesh Ambani's telecom and digital arm set a price band that would value the company near $108 billion, with anchor bidding opening next week.

A malicious GitHub Actions workflow that first surfaced over a year ago has roared back at far greater scale, researchers say, hitting thousands of open-source maintainers before GitHub moved to block it this month.

After months trailing rivals, Google is betting on aggressive pricing and a security-vetted rollout to reclaim ground in the AI race.

A single stolen employee credential let attackers into internal repositories, though Meta says most of what they took was source code, not personal data.

The nominal verdict caps the second Qualcomm-Arm trial in two years, leaving a bigger fight over royalty payments still undecided.

The $299 touchscreen hub, a redesigned HomePod Mini and a pricier Apple TV 4K mark Apple's biggest smart-home push since HomeKit launched in 2014.

The first laptops and desktops built on Nvidia's new N1X chip, pitched as bringing AI-supercomputer-class performance to a personal computer, begin arriving in October from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, MSI and Microsoft.

Shipments rose 60.9% from a year earlier, the island's 35th straight month of export growth, as global buyers keep stocking up on AI servers, chips and networking gear.

The International Trade Commission will investigate whether power-delivery hardware used in AI servers from Foxconn, Delta Electronics and Quanta infringes patents held by Massachusetts-based Vicor.

A Tribeca press event starting at 9 a.m. ET is expected to introduce Apple's first screen-equipped home hub, a redesigned HomePod mini and a new Apple TV, all built around a revamped Siri.

A Zeekr 7X slid sideways through a gap with barely a palm's width of clearance on either side, earning the automaker a Guinness World Record in Abu Dhabi.

Deno creator Ryan Dahl is joining Cloudflare, folding his open-source runtime into Workers as the standalone Deno Deploy hosting business shuts down.

Andreessen Horowitz led an $870 million round for TypeSafe AI, maker of the yes-or-no model Jev, less than a month after the company left stealth.

Researchers say a Chinese-developed agentic hacking tool paired with Claude Code and other AI models breached Shinhan Bank and KB Kookmin, exposing tens of thousands of customer records.

A false tip sent to Philadelphia police and unauthorized visa-form submissions push the AI lab to rein in Claude's autonomy during internal testing.

The sibling-founded startup, which scans patient records overnight to flag hospital patients who may have missed diagnoses, says revenue has grown more than tenfold as it closes a Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.

The British fashion retailer says attackers broke into a third-party platform holding customer contact data, then used Asos's own push notifications to warn: "Engage with us, or we will leak it."

Germany agreed to back Tesla's driver-assistance software for EU-wide approval after the company dropped the "Full Self-Driving" branding, but a fight over how far the system can exceed posted speed limits has pushed the bloc's vote to December.

A Wood Mackenzie report finds four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaker plants on cost in all 43 markets it modeled, as AI data centers buy up scarce turbines and strain power grids worldwide.

Months after designating both companies with new 'strategic market status,' Britain's competition watchdog is weighing rules that would let app developers steer UK customers to payment methods outside Apple's and Google's app stores.

The Y Combinator alum says AI coding agents are now spinning up more than a million databases a week on its platform, and it's betting that database infrastructure built for people needs to be rebuilt for machines.

Park24 subsidiary says stolen data includes driver's license images and identity documents for 1.6 million members, while maintaining that passwords and payment card details were not compromised.

Alphabet's self-driving unit turns to private lenders for the first time, borrowing from PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street to fund fleet growth and rising AI compute costs.

A call for the industry to quietly plan for a 'bunker mode' against faster-than-expected cryptographic breaks has split researchers between urgency and caution.

The Nvidia-powered machine, Microsoft's most expensive Surface laptop yet, starts shipping October 16 with claims it beats Apple's flagship on raw specs.

The smallest model in Anthropic's lineup now undercuts its predecessor on price while posting far higher scores on coding and reasoning tests.

An unreleased internal model produced the results from single prompts in hours, reviving a fight over verification, credit and what counts as mathematics.

Wikimedia disclosed attempted hacks and millions of automated requests from AI agents, the latest in a string of incidents researchers say show AI systems operating with too little oversight.

A proposed law would restrict camera- and microphone-equipped smart glasses in dozens of public settings while a government panel drafts permanent rules.

At a San Francisco event today, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang are set to detail RTX Spark-powered Surface hardware built to run AI models on-device.

The $111 billion merger closed after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute challenge, uniting Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS and CNN under one company carrying roughly $80 billion in debt.