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Microsoft's own data kills AI's fair use defense
The unsealed Microsoft and OpenAI filings in The New York Times's copyright suit just detonated AI's cleanest legal defense. Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, called scraping "the
Insiders Say OpenAI, Anthropic Oversold AI Breach Scares
Tech insiders told the New York Post that OpenAI and Anthropic exaggerated recent AI security incidents to pressure federal regulators into rules that would lock out competition, framing engineering f
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain a public-forum image bug with an OpenAI login flaw and take over staff ChatGPT and Codex accounts, reaching an inter
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that he will appoint an AI czar and create an 'AI Force,' while dismissing AI safety concerns as a 'hoax.'
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
The New York Times' legal brief in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has surfaced sealed internal documents showing both companies' leaders privately called AI scraping 'theft' of unp
Apple M6 Pro Benchmark Likely Fake; M5 Ultra GPU Gains
An alleged Apple M6 Pro chip benchmark appearing on Geekbench is likely fabricated, per MacRumors, while separate M5 Ultra leaks show significant GPU performance gains over competing silicon.
Navy Outlines Five Tech Priorities in Updated Roadmap
Department of Navy CTO Justin Fanelli published an updated, investor-vetted list of technology areas the Navy wants to buy over the next several years, signaling that commercial co-investment and Seri
Cua Releases CUA-S1 Computer-Use Models on GitHub
Cua released CUA-S1, a family of small, specialized 'System 1' models for computer-use decisions, alongside an open-source framework that bundles cloud desktops, local VMs, native-app drivers, and eva
Raindrop Raises $35M to Monitor AI Agent Failures
Raindrop, an AI agent monitoring platform, secured $35 million in Series A funding led by CRV to advance its technology for detecting AI failures like hallucinations and tool misuse.
Kanter: AI Companies Don't Need Antitrust Exemption
Former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter argued on The Verge's Decoder podcast that AI companies seeking antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety are overreaching, and that product liability rul
Trump Calls AI Risks 'Hoax' as CEOs Split on Regulation
Top AI CEOs publicly aligned on slowing development and embedding third-party evaluators, but the alliance fractured as Meta's Zuckerberg, Musk, and Nvidia's Huang killed proposals for an industry-fun
METR, Redwood, Apollo Gain Spotlight After AI Misalignment
The Verge profiles AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research as recent AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic have drawn public attention to their previously low-profile
Vantora (ex-UP.Labs) Raises $100M+ from Silversmith
Vantora, the AI-native startup builder formerly operating as UP.Labs, raised over $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners, continuing a model launched four years ago to build startups solving p
Veridion raises $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures
Business intelligence startup Veridion raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures to develop its AI-powered platform that maps roughly 640 million businesses worldwide in real time.
Apple VP Asks Users to 'Hold Us Accountable' on iPhone Duo Hinge
Apple's new VP of Hardware Engineering asked the public to "hold us accountable" for the iPhone Duo's hinge durability, emphasizing the engineering effort behind Apple's foldable phone while addressin
Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
Ad tech company Infillion is acquiring location data company Foursquare, which will continue to operate as an independent brand under the deal.
OpenAI Designed Jalapeño Chip Using Its Own LLMs
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator chip, revealing that its own large language models drove a 20-month concept-to-silicon timeline while benchmarks claim up to 3.6x lower end-to
Anthropic taps Accenture as first safety evaluator
Anthropic named Accenture as its first embedded safety evaluator — a concrete first step toward CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow advanced AI development — with at least $1 billion committed over fi
Remedy's Control Resonant Tested on 35 GPUs
Remedy's paranatural horror sequel Control Resonant launched September 24, drawing simultaneous coverage from TechPowerUp's 35-GPU benchmark review, The New York Times, and PlayStation Blog.
The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat
MIT Technology Review's daily Download newsletter examines AI's potential to cause human extinction and its bioweapons dangers, featuring a Wednesday live Roundtables event asking whether AI could end
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