Download ChatGPT on Android and you get an app. Download Gemini and you get an operating system — and Brussels wants to close that gap.
Roughly 99 percent of the world's internet traffic runs through subsea cables. Several of the busiest routes sit on the seabed of the Strait of Hormuz — and Iran has warned they are vulnerable.
The juror questionnaires called Elon Musk "a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage" and "a world-class jerk." Finding nine impartial Americans was the first test of a $134 billion trial that could reshape the AI industry.
Google's AI principles still pledge not to build weapons. Its new classified Pentagon contract — covering "any lawful government purpose" — tells a different story. More than 600 employees are demanding their company explain the reversal.
South Africa's national AI policy cleared Cabinet and went to public comment before anyone noticed the references section was partly fiction. The chatbot did it.
Six months after Microsoft considered suing to block OpenAI's deal with Amazon, the AI company is now free to work with anyone. The partnership that defined the AI boom is over — at least on Microsoft's terms.
Meta closed the deal in December. Beijing is now ordering it undone. The message to every AI startup with Chinese roots is unmistakable: relocating to Singapore won't save you.
Nine jurors in Oakland will weigh whether Sam Altman deceived Elon Musk about OpenAI's direction. The $852 billion company's future — and Altman's reputation — hangs on what they believe.
DeepSeek's V4-Pro generates output for $3.48 per million tokens. OpenAI charges $30. On Monday, DeepSeek cut input prices another 75 percent. The race to commoditize AI just found another gear.
Two former Palantir employees reconnected by phone. The greeting wasn't "hello" — it was "Are you tracking Palantir's descent into fascism?" The people building the surveillance infrastructure are the ones sounding the alarm.
Canada and Germany are backing a Cohere-Aleph Alpha merger to build "sovereign AI." The combined entity is valued at $20 billion. Its annual revenue: roughly $240 million.
Police didn't have a suspect — just a map and a warrant served on Google. The Supreme Court will decide if that's enough to search the location history of every person who happened to be nearby.
Economy World launched yesterday on Steam's New Releases chart. Its first two players both report it demanded their Steam login credentials in a separate window. At time of writing, it is still available for download.
Anthropic traced 16 million fraudulent queries to three Chinese AI labs through 24,000 fake accounts. Now the State Department has told every embassy on Earth to sound the alarm.
A sophisticated backdoor survived seven months of patching on an unnamed federal agency's Cisco firewall. CISA and the UK's NCSC published the technical details — but not the victim's identity.
OpenAI flagged and banned Jesse Van Rootselaar's ChatGPT account in June 2025. She killed eight people in February 2026. The company never contacted law enforcement.
A malware framework from 2005 silently corrupted physics and engineering simulations across entire facilities — predating Stuxnet by five years and raising questions about whether decades of safety-critical calculations can be trusted.
DeepSeek V4 processes a million words at a time, runs on Huawei's Chinese-made chips, and costs a fraction of what OpenAI charges. Washington noticed.
OpenAI's fourth model in five months brings measurable token efficiency gains and the company's clearest super app blueprint yet. The NVIDIA dependency underneath got zero airtime.
Scammers posed as Iranian authorities and demanded cryptocurrency for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. At least one vessel that fell for it was fired upon by the IRGC.
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