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In late August 2017, key figures at OpenAI (then a small nonprofit research lab) gathered to discuss how they would create a for-profit to commercialize its technology and raise the funds needed to realize AGI. Elon Musk was demanding full control of the company and had just give

A U.S. court has sentenced Latvian hacker Deniss Zolotarjovs to more than eight years in prison following his conviction for carrying out ransomware attacks. The Justice Department accused the hacker of working for a notorious Russian ransomware gang called Karakurt, which was le

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For the first time in at least 30 years, Apple is spending more than 10 cents of every dollar it brings in on research and development, one of the strongest signs yet that the iPhone maker is dedicating big money to its artificial intelligence ambitions. Apple's R&D spending hit

AI evaluation startup Braintrust has urged customers to revoke and replace their API keys after an earlier breach of customer secrets. According to an email sent to customers Monday and seen by TechCrunch, the startup confirmed “unauthorized access” in one of its Amazon Web Servi

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Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI’s legal depart

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans Xbox seeks to reverse a revenue slump. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on X on Tuesday that the company is winding down its Copilot for Gaming feature on mobile and canceling its planned cons

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SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, according to a proposal on the county website. The company estimates it may spend a total of

DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks, its potential valuation has soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times and Bloomberg reported. The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large l

SpaceX’s plan to go public will reportedly give CEO Elon Musk “virtually unchecked executive authority” and limit the rights of shareholders to sue the company. The plan, reported by Reuters today, could prevent shareholder lawsuits like the one that held up a lucrative Musk pay

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50% A lot of optical fiber for AI infrastructure buildouts. When you have a dominant position in an industry, you should

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Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE O

It's hard to find an AI stock that's not making new highs on a daily basis. Perhaps that's why options traders are piling into Super Micro Computer, the data-center server play that's up 15% Wednesday after earnings, but still down 49% from last year's high. Options volumes skew

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The astronauts flying aboard the Artemis II mission to the Moon last month took a lot of pictures, and a few dozen of the best ones were released during and shortly afterward the flight. But it wasn’t until last weekend that NASA released the whole trove of more than 12,000 image

Despite Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s pledge to provide “radical transparency,” the agencies under his control continue to suppress scientific research that conflicts with his anti-vaccine agenda. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported confirmation from the Department of

SAN FRANCISCO—At its Code with Claude developers’ conference, Anthropic has introduced what it calls “dreaming” to Claude Managed Agents. Dreaming, in this case, is a process of going over recent events and identifying specific things that are worth storing in “memory” to inform

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Google named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies Jayce Nichols Director, Intelligence Solutions Emiliano Martinez Google Threat Intelligence Lead Product Manager At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditio

What's new in IAM: Security, governance, and runtime defense Abhishek A Hemrajani Senior Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Security The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply are

Fitting the future: How Breuninger boosted sales with its "be your own model" AI Michael Menzel Google Cloud Daniel Rascher Senior Product Owner, Breuninger “How will this look on me?” It’s the question every online fashion shopper asks, and one that most retailers still can’t an

The Blueprint: Translating stream-of-conscious speech into responsive, actionable task lists Gonçalo Silva Chief Technology Officer, Doist Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across indust

Pioneering AI-assisted code migration: How Google achieved 6x faster migration from TensorFlow to JAX Jamie Rogers Head of Product, Domain Applied Machine Learning, AI and Infrastructure Parthasarathy Ranganathan Google Fellow & Vice President, AI and Infrastructure AI coding age

Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don't want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood Survey polled 4,000 U.S. residents in late 2025. According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of las

Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites rather than their precise location, Google announced this week. The tech giant says that while some cases require precise location, such as when you’re placing a delivery order or trying to find the c

Google is updating search to refine its AI experience by adding additional context to links, like excerpts from web forums and blogs, as well as a feature that highlights links from a user’s news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find ans

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprise hands. In a demo video, the company showcased various advanced tasks performed by a set of robotic hands it has d