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Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash
Meta has withdrawn a new AI image generation feature from Instagram after facing backlash over privacy concerns, with the tool allowing users to create fake images using public account content without permission.
Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging the AI company engaged in a pattern of stealing trade secrets through hiring former Apple employees who shared confidential information.
EU threatens Meta with fines over ‘addictive’ Facebook and Instagram
The European Commission has warned Meta that Facebook and Instagram’s design features encourage “compulsive use” and could face fines up to 6% of annual global revenue if the company fails to implement changes.
Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police
Facial recognition technology in UK shops will soon alert police in real time to serious offenders, sparking concerns from civil liberties groups about surveillance expansion and disproportionate policing.
YouTube, Facebook and X among platforms forced to tackle UK scam ads
UK regulator Ofcom has proposed new rules requiring major social media platforms to combat fraudulent advertisements, with potential fines reaching £18 million or 10% of global turnover for non-compliance.
‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms
US Senator Ed Markey unveiled an AI accountability agenda comprising multiple bills addressing energy consumption, workplace surveillance, algorithmic bias, and economic inequality caused by artificial intelligence technology.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may cause systems to exhaust disk space by writing excessive files, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
OpenAI releases latest ChatGPT model after delay over White House cybersecurity concerns
OpenAI released its latest ChatGPT 5.6 model on Thursday following earlier delays due to Trump administration cybersecurity concerns and government evaluation requirements.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Google awarded $250,000 for reporting a critical Linux KVM vulnerability enabling guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems, one of two high-severity flaws discovered this week.
Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates...
Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost
Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available...
SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon
SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday...
Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that’s been slowing AI agents
For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn't introduce latency and performance degradation.Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons...
Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform...
Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream
A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which allowed her to watch and have full control of the TV stream of every World Cup game. The researcher, who goes by BobDaHacker, said she simply...
Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features
Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7. The latest release, which arrives first on its own Pixel devices, is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop, bringing new features that...
Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business
Mobileye has pitched itself as an autonomous vehicle technology supplier. Now it wants the operator label, too. The Intel subsidiary and publicly traded company said Tuesday it plans to launch a robotaxi service in a U.S. city in 2027, marking an expansion beyond its...
Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start
Rivian is laying off hundreds of workers just one week after it began deliveries of its hotly-anticipated R2 SUV, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The company said the layoffs will affect less than 2% of its overall workforce, and that it was done to boost...
Stanford’s DeLM cuts multi-agent task costs 50% — without a central orchestrator
One of the assumptions behind today’s AI frameworks is that agents require a “boss” at the center; this orchestrator runs the show, routes requests, and makes sure the whole system doesn’t descend into chaos. That assumption may be wrong, and the cost of carrying it...
Snap finally debuts its long awaited AR glasses, Specs, and, oof, they aren’t cheap
At a spatial AI convention in Long Beach on Tuesday, Snap finally unveiled Specs, its long-awaited consumer smart glasses, and at $2,195, they don’t come cheap. Specs will be available for preorder on June 16th, with a $200 refundable deposit, and are expected to ship...
Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers’ trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP, the Automattic-owned company that offers an enterprise version of the WordPress publishing platform. As brands race to have their links appear in AI search...
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