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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators

Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair

30 Jun 2025 9:44 am
Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion in stock amid market surge: Report

More than $500 million of the share sales took place this month as the California-based chip designer's share price climbed to an all-time high, the report said

30 Jun 2025 9:31 am
Trump says 'very wealthy' group to buy TikTok

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday a group of buyers had been found for TikTok, which faces a looming ban in the United States due to its China ties

30 Jun 2025 9:24 am
F1 opens with $55 million, delivering Apple its biggest big-screen hit

Apple has its first box-office hitThough Apple Original Films has had some notable successes in its six years in Hollywood including the 2021 Oscar-winner CODA its theatrical results have been decidedly mixed.

30 Jun 2025 9:09 am
Indians spend 35 minutes each day wet cleaning their floors, says Dysons study

Dyson said that 62% of Indian respondents thought a vacuum cleaner with wet functionality would be the most effective method, yet they see that adoption remains quite low

28 Jun 2025 1:13 pm
Samsung launches Galaxy M36 5G with Exynos processor and AMOLED display in India

The South Korean electronics major has also introduced Galaxy AI features like Circle to Search and Gemini Live in Galaxy M36 5G

28 Jun 2025 11:50 am
Microsoft's next-gen AI chip production delayed to 2026: Report

When the chip, code-named Braga, goes into production, it is expected to fall well short of the performance of Nvidia's Blackwell chip that was released late last year, the report said

28 Jun 2025 10:41 am
OpenAI turns to Google's AI chips to power its products

The ChatGPT maker is one of the largest purchasers of Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs), using the AI chips to train models and also for inference computing, a process in which an AI model uses its trained knowledge to make predictions or decisions based on new information

28 Jun 2025 10:34 am
DeepSeek faces ban from Apple, Google app stores in Germany

Commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement on Friday that she had made the request because DeepSeek illegally transfers users' personal data to China

28 Jun 2025 10:24 am
Meta may face daily fines over pay-or-consent model, EU warns

The warning from the European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, came two months after it slapped a 200-million-euro ($234 million) fine on the U.S. social media giant for breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA) aiming at curbing the power of Big Tech

28 Jun 2025 9:58 am
Brazils Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content

Brazils Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks

27 Jun 2025 1:39 pm
Meta poaches OpenAI researcher who worked on AI reasoning models

The researcher, Trapit Bansal, worked on reinforcement learning directly with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever

27 Jun 2025 12:33 pm
YouTube rolls out new AI search results feature similar to AI Overviews

An AI-powered search results carousel will now appear when users are searching for shopping, travel and things to do in a specific place, a YouTube blog post said

27 Jun 2025 11:58 am
How the new U.S. visa rules affect your online privacy | Explained

Privacy experts have slammed the U.S. governments new social media vetting requirements, likening the countrys approach to that of an authoritarian regime. However, they note it is difficult to claim that privacy laws are being broken as visa applicants can choose to ignore the request, though they put their visa application at risk by doing so

27 Jun 2025 11:20 am
Windows infamous blue screen of death will soon turn black

Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous Blue Screen of Death at some point in their computing life

27 Jun 2025 10:48 am
Top Tesla executive, an Elon Musk confidant, leaves the company

Afshar was part of the CEO's office and since last year had overseen sales and manufacturing in Europe and North America

27 Jun 2025 10:09 am
DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress: Report

R2, a successor to DeepSeek's wildly popular R1 reasoning model, was planned for release in May with goals to produce better coding and reason in languages beyond English

27 Jun 2025 9:59 am
Meta signs deals to source more solar, wind power for data centers

This is the latest in a string of deals by Meta to meet the surging power demand of its data centers needed for artificial intelligence technologies using clean energy

27 Jun 2025 9:49 am
Palantir partners to develop AI software for nuclear construction

Palantir Technologies said it was teaming up with a nuclear deployment company to develop an artificial intelligence-driven software system

27 Jun 2025 9:37 am
Tech lobby group urges EU leaders to pause AI Act

Tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta and Apple, on Thursday urged European Union to pause implementation of the AI Act

26 Jun 2025 11:17 am
Tesla's robotaxi peppered with driving mistakes in Texas tests

Chief Executive Elon Musk has tied Tesla's financial future to self-driving technology, and with Tesla sales down, the stakes are high

26 Jun 2025 10:25 am
Microsoft and OpenAI dueling over artificial general intelligence: Report

Under the current terms, when OpenAI achieves AGI, Microsoft's access to such a technology would be void

26 Jun 2025 10:07 am
Getty drops copyright allegations in UK lawsuit against Stability AI

Getty Images has dropped copyright infringement allegations from its lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI

26 Jun 2025 9:21 am
More than 40% Agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027: Gartner report

The Gartner study also revealed that 19% of the organizations had made significant investments in agentic AI, 42% had made conservative investments, 8% had no investments, while the remaining 31% were taking a wait and see approach or were on the fence

25 Jun 2025 3:16 pm
Microsoft to layoff staff in Xbox as part ofrestructuring plan

The layoffs come against the backdrop of a next generation gaming console the company plans to unveil

25 Jun 2025 12:42 pm
Google DeepMind unveils on-device robotics model

The on-device AI model is efficient at general purpose tasks and can operate without the internet

25 Jun 2025 11:21 am
Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social media ban

The quarrel adds an element of uncertainty to the December rollout of a law being watched by governments and tech leaders around the world as Australia seeks to become the first country to fine social media firms if they fail to block users aged under 16

25 Jun 2025 9:30 am
UK may compel Google to change search rankings, offer alternatives

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Alphabet-owned Google with strategic market status, it said on Tuesday, giving it more power to intervene in search services to increase innovation and economic growth

25 Jun 2025 9:21 am
Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit

Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made fair use of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model

25 Jun 2025 9:14 am
ex-OpenAI CTOs startup Thinking Machines Lab raises $2 billion at $10 billion valuation

The seed round for Thinking Machines Lab was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Sarah Guos Conviction Partners

24 Jun 2025 2:59 pm
Microsoftintroduces small language model Mu to change settings in Windows 11

Accessible to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel with Copilot+PCs, Mu responds to natural language queries

24 Jun 2025 2:03 pm
OpenAI and Jony Ives AI device will not be a wearable: Report

A new report stated that leaders from the io team noted that while the design hadnt been finalised, it wasnt an in-ear device or a wearable device

24 Jun 2025 12:30 pm
Google launches AI Mode in India with advanced reasoning and multimodality

Powered by a custom version of Gemini 2.5, Google said that AI Mode will answer user questions that would have previously required multiple searches

24 Jun 2025 11:13 am
Amazon must face authors' lawsuit over audiobook distribution, U.S. judge rules

U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon in the federal court in Manhattan rejected for now Amazon's bid to dismiss the proposed class action by author Christine DeMaio

21 Jun 2025 12:43 pm
Tesla invites select few to Texas robotaxi trial with front seat safety monitors

Tesla has sent out invitations to a small group of people to join the limited test of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, which is tentatively set to start on Sunday, according to posts and email screenshots

21 Jun 2025 12:16 pm
Iran-Israel fighting distorted by tech-fuelled misinformation

The information warfare unfolding alongside ground combat, sparked by Israel's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and military leadership, underscores a digital crisis in the age of rapidly advancing AI tools

21 Jun 2025 10:31 am
Big-name porn sites back online in France after age check row

Major adult websites Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube were back online in France Friday after a court suspended a decision requiring age verification

21 Jun 2025 9:05 am
Billions of login credentials have been leaked online: Report

Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online

21 Jun 2025 8:23 am
Perplexity rolls out AI video generation with Ask Perplexity on X

Following the news, hordes of users started tweeting prompts for videos they wanted tagging Ask Perplexity, which then generated 8 second videos

20 Jun 2025 2:34 pm
After Scale AI, Meta is going after OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskevers startup Safe Superintelligence

After its failed attempt to buy OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskevers startup Safe Superintelligence Inc earlier this year, Meta has opened communication channels with SSI CEO Daniel Gross and ex-Github CEO Nat Friedman

20 Jun 2025 1:00 pm
EU probes Musk's xAI buyout of X: Report

Elon Musk's $33 billion xAI acquisition of X has drawn fresh scrutiny from the European Union, as regulators evaluate potential fines under the Digital Services Act, Bloomberg News reported

20 Jun 2025 10:23 am
Meta AI app introduces consent pop ups as users post sensitive details in prompts to generate AI content

The Meta AI app has a chatbot and also allows users to post their conversations with it on a feed that looks similar to social platforms like Instagram

19 Jun 2025 2:33 pm
Canva adds Googles Veo 3 to generate video clips with sound

Called Create a Video Clip, the feature is available for Canva Pro, Teams, Enterprise and Nonprofit users

19 Jun 2025 11:26 am
Google is testing voice feature in search with AI Mode

Available to the Android and iOS users in the U.S., users on Google Labs can access the feature

19 Jun 2025 10:59 am
Microsoft prepared to abandon high-stakes talks with OpenAI: Report

The tech giant has considered pausing discussions with the ChatGPT maker if the two sides remain unable to agree on critical issues such as the size of Microsoft's future stake in OpenAI

19 Jun 2025 9:26 am
Musk's xAI on track to raise $5 billion in fresh debt, following modest demand

The $5 billion debt sale, which includes a floating-rate term loan, a fixed-rate loan and secured bonds, will be allocated to investors on Wednesday

18 Jun 2025 10:35 am
Latin American countries to launch own AI model in September

This open-source project, steered by Chile's state-run National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) alongside over 30 regional institutions, seeks to significantly increase the uptake and accessibility of AI across Latin America

18 Jun 2025 10:23 am
Adobe brings AI-image generation app to phones, adds partners

The new app, called Firefly, packages Adobe's own AI model together with models from new partner firms Ideogram, Luma AI, Pika and Runway, and is available on iOS and Android phones

18 Jun 2025 10:12 am
This photography movement has disavowed AI

A global community of Lomographers is using film cameras with joy and reckless abandon in the age of AI-enhanced smartphone and digital photography

18 Jun 2025 8:15 am
Tinder announces Double Date feature

Tinders Double Date feature will allow friends to match with other friend-pairs to go on group dates

17 Jun 2025 4:16 pm