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Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against a South Carolina man, Terry Wayne Harwood, accusing him of using its Grok chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in violation of the company’s terms of service. The lawsuit, filed in a US district court, seeks unspecified damages and a permanent ban preventing Harwood […]

The European Commission has moved to force Google to give rival AI services the same access to Android features currently reserved for its own Gemini assistant, and to share anonymized search data with competing search engines and AI chatbots under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The action comes through two parallel “specification proceedings” opened in […]

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, marking the first time the US government has targeted a virtual private network provider for its role in facilitating ransomware attacks. The sanctions prohibit all US-person transactions with the service and require financial institutions to report any […]

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has delivered a blistering diagnosis of the chipmaker’s long decline, telling the All-In podcast that the company that invented the microprocessor stopped being run by the people who understood it. “Fundamentally this is a technology business and you need technologists running technology,” Gelsinger said. “One of the things that went […]

Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of AMI Labs, the world-model startup co-founded with Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has a simple reason for refusing to describe his company’s technology as AGI or superintelligence: he doesn’t think the words mean anything. “We never used the word AGI. And I just noticed that nobody is using it anymore; they […]

Australia’s privacy regulator has ruled that Qantas did not breach privacy laws when a voice-phishing attack tricked a call center worker into exposing 5.7 million customers’ personal information, in a decision that underscores how effective social engineering attacks can be even against trained employees. The 2025 data breach began when a caller identifying themselves as […]

South Korea’s government has published a tender seeking private-sector partners to build a universal basic AI chatbot, a free-to-use service that would be available to every resident in the country. The “AI for everyone” plan, administered by the Ministry of Science and ICT, calls for private entities to build and operate two AI systems under […]

Microsoft released its July Patch Tuesday update on Wednesday, fixing 570 vulnerabilities in a single month, shattering the previous record of 206 set just one month earlier in June. Among the patched flaws are three zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which are already under active exploitation. The third, a BitLocker encryption bypass, was publicly disclosed but […]

Google and Epic Games have jointly withdrawn their proposed settlement of the long-running antitrust battle over Android app distribution, paving the way for third-party app stores to appear inside Google Play starting July 22. With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the full scope of Judge James Donato’s October 2024 injunction, which requires […]

Google’s next-generation tensor processing unit, codenamed Humufish, will use Intel’s EMIB-T advanced packaging technology instead of TSMC’s industry-standard CoWoS, according to semiconductor analysis firm SemiAnalysis. The decision marks a significant win for Intel’s foundry business under CEO Lip-Bu Tan and signals growing demand for alternatives to TSMC’s capacity-constrained advanced packaging lines. As AI workloads drive […]