FTC Sends OpenAI and Anthropic Demands for Records on Safety and Consumer Protection
The Federal Trade Commission has demanded documents from OpenAI and Anthropic about how the two artificial intelligence developers handle safety failures and treat their users, according to people familiar with…
A Recording Device in the Boardroom, and a Saudi Employee Under Arrest
The object was small, and it was found where the smallest objects are least expected: inside a conference room used by the executives of one of the most closely watched…
Marvell, Microsoft and Oracle Form a Hardware Security Group Under OCP
For years the security conversation in data centers has been about software: what runs on the servers, who can reach it, and how quickly a flaw is patched. The hardware…
Applied Materials Plans a $5 Billion Lab to Halve Chip Development Time
The most expensive equipment inside a semiconductor factory is the machinery that makes the chips. Applied Materials wants to build a facility whose product is neither. The company, the largest…
Figma Pushes Its Design Rules Into the Hands of AI Agents
Figma used its first conference in India on October 14 to introduce a set of tools aimed less at designers than at the software agents now writing code alongside them,…
YouTube Labels AI Music as Deezer Lets Listeners Filter It
YouTube began attaching labels to AI-generated music on October 14, and Deezer said the same day that it will give listeners a switch to remove that music from their results,…
Nvidia Would Halt Chip Supply to Unsafe AI Developers, Huang Says
Nvidia would consider cutting off a customer that used its chips to build artificial intelligence with safety risks, the company’s chief executive said, a threat aimed at a customer base…
Google Widens Access to Gemini 4 Argon and Pulls the Pro Tier Up Behind It
Google began pushing Gemini 4 Argon to subscribers of its AI Pro and AI Ultra plans on October 13, putting the company’s newest model in front of paying users at…
Meta Opens Its First Frontier Model Family With a Two-Tier Subscription
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, describing them as the company’s strongest models to date and its first family of frontier systems. The pair is…
Microsoft Says Its Third Maia Chip Delivers 40% More Tokens per Megawatt
Microsoft introduced its third generation of in-house artificial intelligence chips on October 12, a processor built for inference rather than training, and attached a number to it that the cloud…
