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Anthropic files IPO, Nvidia launches RTX Spark
Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing flips the AI power balance, signaling that its code‑generation model is now a market‑ready revenue engine capable of challenging OpenAI’s dominance. The move arrive
Mayor Furgeson Calls Center Opponents Shitty House
Mayor Scott Furgeson of Shelbyville sparked outrage after saying only residents of ‘shitty houses’ and rentals oppose the $2 billion data center, prompting community backlash and a regretful statement
OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode for secure ChatGPT use
OpenAI unveiled Lockdown Mode, a new setting for ChatGPT that disables live web browsing, web image retrieval, deep research, and agent mode. The feature is aimed at users handling sensitive data to l
Trump Talks OpenAI Equity Stake for Public Fund
President Trump said he’s been talking to AI executives about deals that would give the American public a partnership stake in AI companies. CNBC and Bloomberg report that the administration is discus
Benn Jordan Makes YouTube Nonprofit Surveillance Hub
Benn Jordan, formerly known as Flashbulb and a top gear‑review YouTuber, has repurposed his channel into a nonprofit focused on exposing surveillance tech and now spends his time probing camera vulner
Meta Pulls AI‑Generated Clickbait Feed After Test
Meta tested a new AI‑driven “For You” feed that auto‑generates clickbait stories and images, then pulled the feature after scrutiny over unlabelled, potentially misleading content and the lack of comp
OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to curb ChatGPT data leaks
OpenAI is rolling out a new Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT across all personal and Business plans. The optional security setting disables features such as live web browsing, image support, deep research, a
Trump proposes US stake in AI giants
President Trump announced a plan for the United States to acquire a minority stake in leading AI companies, positioning the American public as shareholders in the sector's booming growth and sharing i
Firms Cap AI Tool Usage as Costs Outpace Returns
After three years of AI hype that progressed from suspicion to mania, a reckoning is underway: early-adopting companies like Uber, Amazon, and GitHub are capping AI tool usage as the costs outpace mea
Mbodi AI hires founding ML engineer for robot learning
Mbodi AI, a Y Combinator‑backed robotics startup, is building an embodied AI platform that lets users teach robots new skills via natural language and deploy them in production within minutes. The com
Bright Data SDK Turns Smart TVs Into Scraping Proxies
Security researchers have reverse-engineered Bright Data's iOS SDK and found it turns consumer devices — especially always-on smart TVs — into web-scraping exit nodes for the AI industry, with an opt-
CISA Adds SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
CISA has added a high-severity SolarWinds Serv-U denial-of-service flaw—CVE-2026-28318, requiring no authentication—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ordering federal agencies to patch b
AI Agent Finds 21 FFmpeg Zero-Days for $1,000
Security startup depthfirst's autonomous AI agent uncovered 21 previously unknown FFmpeg vulnerabilities for roughly $1,000, the same week Google shipped Chrome 149 with a record 429 patches — both sy
Google Pays SpaceX $920M/Month for AI Compute
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to Nvidia-powered AI compute through mid-2029, in a deal disclosed in an SEC filing days before SpaceX's planned blockbuster IPO.
Trump Proposes US Equity Stakes in AI Companies
President Donald Trump announced he will explore having the U.S. government take equity stakes in leading artificial‑intelligence firms, framing the move as a partnership that could let Americans shar
20-Year Engineer: AI Code Criticism Misses the Point
A software engineer with 20+ years of experience pushes back against a daily Hacker News refrain criticizing AI-generated code as buggy, arguing users only care whether the product works and that AI-a
Trump to explore US equity stakes in AI firms
President Donald Trump announced plans to explore U.S. government equity stakes in leading AI companies, scheduling meetings with executives next week, a move that has sparked widespread media coverag
Microsoft Unveils 7 In-House MAI Models, Free of OpenAI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman disclosed at Build 2026 that a contract revision roughly six months ago freed Microsoft from OpenAI restrictions on building frontier AI in-house, coinciding with t
iOS 27 Turns Siri Into a Chatbot, Opens to Rival AIs
Apple's WWDC 2026 (June 5) will reveal a chatbot-style Siri in iOS 27 that draws on personal data, lives in the Dynamic Island, and integrates rival AIs like Claude and Gemini through new Extensions.
Only 10% of SOCs See Excellent AI Value, SOC-CMM 2026 Finds
The SOC-CMM 2026 Maturity Report, surveying roughly 200 SOCs, found only 10% report excellent AI value despite record adoption, attributing the gap to architecture: the 10% run AI across the SOC lifec
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