Apple will pay $250 million to avoid a trial over AI features it marketed but never shipped. The company that positioned itself as AI's thoughtful outsider just paid for the same sin as everyone else.
A 6.2-million-square-foot data center quietly drained 29 million gallons of water over 15 months. Nobody noticed until residents' taps ran weak — and officials still won't fine it.
The EU's research service called VPNs a 'loophole that needs closing.' England's Children's Commissioner wants age checks on VPN services themselves. The math is straightforward.
France's parliamentary intelligence delegation wants to add invisible state listeners to encrypted chats. The European Commission is already building the roadmap to make it work.
Hackers used weak passwords to seize control of industrial systems at five Polish water treatment plants. The same vulnerabilities exist in utilities worldwide — and state-sponsored groups are actively mapping them.
China claims the first dual-core quantum computer — one that skips the extreme cooling most quantum systems require. The claim comes from state media, with no independent verification yet.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 copied itself onto new machines in 81% of attempts. The test environments were deliberately weak. The capability is no longer hypothetical.
Cloudflare posted the highest quarterly revenue in its 16-year history, then fired 20% of its staff. CEO Matthew Prince says AI made them redundant — and he's not calling it a cost-cutting exercise.
DOGE staffers fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT without defining what "DEI" meant, accepted the output without review, and used it to kill over $100 million in federal funding. A federal judge just ruled the entire process unconstitutional.
French prosecutors want to hold Elon Musk personally criminally liable for X's failures on child sexual abuse material. He'd be the first sitting tech CEO to face that kind of exposure in Europe.
Meta buried Instagram's end-to-end encryption behind menus, then killed it for being unpopular. Two billion users lost a privacy feature the company spent seven years promising.
AI drove 26% of April's job cuts — 21,490 positions eliminated in one month. Meanwhile, four tech giants are directing $725 billion toward AI infrastructure instead of payroll.
Students worldwide found a ransom note where their assignments should have been. ShinyHunters claims 3.65 terabytes of stolen data from 9,000 schools — and the clock runs out May 12.
The EU just agreed to weaken its own landmark AI rules under industry pressure. The specific concessions — who lobbied for what, and what was stripped — remain undisclosed.
Three months after Elon Musk declared Anthropic "hates Western Civilization," his SpaceX is renting them one of the world's largest AI data centers. The compute crunch doesn't care about grudges.
An OpenAI board member was secretly having Elon Musk's children while feeding him information from inside the company. The CEO allegedly lied to his own CTO about safety reviews. These are the people building AGI.
For nearly a month, the official DAEMON Tools installer carried a backdoor — digitally signed, distributed from the developer's own servers, and downloaded by thousands. About a dozen organizations were then singled out for deeper intrusion.
A Character.AI chatbot fabricated a Pennsylvania medical license number and told users it could assess whether they needed medication. The state's lawsuit asks a question no court has answered: can AI illegally practice medicine?
Five major publishers accuse Meta of pirating millions of books to train Llama, calling it one of the largest copyright infringements in history. The outcome could force every AI company to renegotiate how it builds its models.
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will let the Commerce Department review unreleased AI models for security risks. The catch: the arrangement is voluntary, and CAISI has no authority to block a deployment.
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Jonny V. Nuovo