States Open Trial Against Meta With Four Words: Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide
The prosecutor stood before the federal jury and reduced Meta’s product strategy to four words: hook, hold, harvest and hide. The trial that began Wednesday in federal court is the…
OpenAI Halts Frontier Training to Bolster Defenses After Cyberattack
Greg Brockman had a message for the people who build and guard OpenAI’s most powerful models: slow down. The company’s co-founder said Tuesday that OpenAI has paused large-scale frontier model…
Apple’s Camera AirPods Surface in macOS Update
The product reveal came in a file most people will never open. MacRumors, sifting through the demo video inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, found footage of AirPods fitted…
OpenAI’s Safety Team Disbanded, Company Says It Was a Reorganization
The Financial Times reported on Aug. 16 that OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, the unit charged with assessing catastrophic risks from AI models, at the end of July, folding its…
Tesla’s Robotaxi Debuts Days Away, Nevada Approves 10 Vehicles
Inside Tesla’s Austin headquarters, employees are queuing for test rides in the Cybercab, the robotaxi the company has promised for years. The first rides for staff are underway, and the…
Beijing Orders State Bodies to Uninstall Custom Windows 10 Ahead of Schedule
China’s Ministry of State Security has told some state institutions to remove the government-customized edition of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from their computers, earlier than the original timetable, Bloomberg reported on…
TSMC Builds a Transistor Layer Four-Tenths of a Nanometer Thick
HSINCHU, Taiwan — Silicon has a physical limit, and the world’s largest chipmaker is trying to see past it. TSMC, working with researchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,…
Brockman Dismisses OpenAI Exodus: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Really That Abnormal’
SAN FRANCISCO — In the past week, OpenAI’s head of revenue left less than a year into the job, and the company named a replacement from outside. The departures have…
Claude Outage Hits Anthropic for 36 Minutes in IPO Run-Up
SAN FRANCISCO — For about half an hour on Sunday, one of the most valuable private companies in technology could not get its own product to work. Anthropic’s Claude service…
OpenAI Names Dali Rajic Chief Revenue Officer, Its Second in a Year
OpenAI has a new sales chief, again. The company announced Aug. 14 that Dali Rajic, former president and chief operating officer of the cybersecurity firm Wiz, will become chief revenue…
