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Meta Removes AI Feature That Let Users Clone Others' Content
The company reversed course after Hollywood agencies and unions condemned the opt-out approach to using public Instagram profiles in AI-generated media.
OpenAI Safety Chief Johannes Heidecke Departs Amid Restructuring
The company consolidates safety and research teams under new leadership as model development accelerates.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of poaching employees who brought confidential hardware designs to the AI company's nascent device business.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
The lawsuit claims OpenAI solicited confidential product details from Apple job candidates and accessed internal documents through former employees.
Microsoft emissions surge 25% as AI data centers expand
The tech giant's sustainability report reveals greenhouse gas pollution jumped in fiscal 2025, with more gas-powered facilities planned.
AI Tool Matches Wire-Based FFR Accuracy in 36 Seconds
Israeli company's AutocathFFR analyzes routine angiograms with 93.8% diagnostic accuracy in retrospective study of nearly 500 patients.
Meta Muse Image Lets Anyone Generate AI Photos From Your Instagram
The new tool uses public profiles by default, with no notification to account owners when their content is referenced.
UChicago Law Bans Laptops, Phones for 1Ls in AI Policy Shift
The university's new strategy statement mandates pen-and-paper learning for first-year law students while teaching responsible AI use in upper-level courses.
First AI-Powered Ransomware Uses Agents to Automate Attacks
JadePuffer demonstrates how agentic AI can execute nearly every stage of a ransomware operation, from reconnaissance to encryption, with minimal human involvement.
Half of Manufacturers Target End-of-Line Automation by 2027
Labor pressures and new vision systems are driving a compressed deployment cycle for packaging, palletizing, and inspection robotics.
Google's SensorFM Uses Trillion Minutes of Data to Interpret Health
The search giant's foundation model shifts wearables from raw metrics to AI-driven clinical insights, a direction Whoop and Oura already follow.
AI Competition Shifts From Model Size to Cost and Orchestration
As enterprises deploy AI in production, the focus moves from frontier models to routing systems that balance performance, price, and control.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
The iPhone maker claims OpenAI's hardware chief orchestrated systematic theft of confidential designs, prototypes, and documents from departing employees.
PC Shipments Drop 5% as AI Memory Shortage Drives Up Prices
Deep-pocketed data centers are consuming DRAM supplies, forcing laptop makers to raise prices and cut shipment volumes through 2030.
Labor Department Opens Public Comment on AI Usage Survey
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will track how Americans use artificial intelligence tools across work, home, and leisure activities starting in 2027.
How to opt out of Meta's new Instagram AI image generator
Meta automatically enrolled public accounts in a tool that lets anyone create AI images from your photos.
Michigan's $20M AI Fraud Settlement Shows Why Caseworkers Matter
Between 2013 and 2015, an automated unemployment system wrongly flagged 93% of fraud cases it reviewed—a cautionary tale as agencies accelerate AI adoption.
Meta's Muse Image Uses Public Instagram Photos for AI by Default
The company automatically opted in adult users with public accounts, offering no advance notice of the policy change.
Meta Faces Backlash Over Instagram AI Feature Using Photos by Default
SAG-AFTRA and CAA condemn the Muse Image tool's opt-out policy that lets anyone generate AI content from public Instagram accounts without notification.
Meta Plans Data Center Rentals and Undercuts AI Model Pricing
The company's new revenue strategies aim to monetize massive infrastructure investments as stock rebounds.
SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Record US Listing for AI Chips
South Korean memory maker's Nasdaq debut reflects surging demand for high-bandwidth memory powering data center infrastructure.
AI Safety Group Proposes US-China Pause on Frontier Research
The AI Futures Project outlines a temporary halt to advanced AI development while infrastructure catches up, arguing current capabilities alone could drive years of economic growth.
Slack Uses AI Agents for End-to-End Testing in Dynamic UIs
Engineering team shifts from brittle fixed-step tests to goal-driven execution that adapts when interfaces change.
U.S. Eases Export Controls on UAE for AI Chips and Military Tech
The Commerce Department granted the Emirates license-free access to advanced computing hardware and streamlined military exports, citing strategic partnership.