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Meta has removed the controversial Muse Image feature on Instagram that allowed any user to generate AI creations using public accounts’ photos without notification or consent, just days after it launched. The feature, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs and released on July 7, let users @-mention public Instagram accounts and incorporate their existing photos into […]

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating eight companies it suspects of acting as front organizations for Chinese drone giant DJI, which has been effectively banned from selling new products in the United States since December 2025 under a national security order. The FCC also announced plans to deauthorize a Chinese testing laboratory it says helped […]

OpenAI has moved to reassure the market that its partnership with Microsoft remains intact, announcing that GPT 5.6 will serve as the “preferred model” for Microsoft 365 Copilot even as reports circulate that the software giant is turning to its own in-house AI to cut costs. The announcement came during the launch of OpenAI’s GPT […]

Elon Musk has publicly reversed his stance on Anthropic, calling the AI lab “clearly the leader in AI” and promising not to cut off its access to the xAI compute infrastructure it relies on, a remarkable concession from a man whose own companies, including xAI and SpaceX, compete directly with Anthropic. “I was clearly wrong […]

A US startup has delivered the first commercial sodium-ion home batteries in Europe, marking a significant milestone in the quest for a lithium-free alternative to residential energy storage. UNIGRID, a spin-off from the University of California San Diego, announced that the first units of its Na+Casa sodium-ion battery have been installed in European homes. The […]

Meta has launched Muse Image, an AI image-generation tool integrated directly into Instagram, that allows any user to tag a public account and use that account’s photos as raw material for AI-generated creations, with no notification or consent required from the person whose images are being used. The feature, which launched on July 7, lets […]

AMD has formally abandoned HBM (high-bandwidth memory) in its programmable chip lineup, replacing it with LPDDR5X on-package memory, a move that represents a roughly 65% bandwidth cut and underscores just how completely the AI boom has consumed the global HBM supply. The company’s new Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) family integrates up […]

A former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after admitting he colluded with the BlackCat ransomware group to extort the very victims who had hired him to represent them. The sentence, handed down on Thursday, concludes a case that cybersecurity professionals describe as an unprecedented breach of trust in an […]

Anthropic has revealed that its Claude AI models spontaneously developed an internal reasoning structure strikingly similar to a key feature of human consciousness, a “global workspace” the company can now read and influence. The discovery, published in a research paper on July 6, is called the J-space (short for Jacobian space, named after the mathematical […]

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and the company’s hardware chief, accusing the ChatGPT maker of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone-maker’s trade secrets. The complaint, filed on Friday in a California court, alleges that OpenAI encouraged former Apple employees to bring confidential presentations, unreleased component prototypes, and detailed supplier information when they […]