FTC accuses AI search engine of 'rampant consumer deception'

The company's offerings are allegedly a ploy to lock consumers into recurring charges they don't want, a scheme that ensnared hundreds of thousands of people and that federal regulators are calling "rampant consumer deception."

Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million

How AI image tools can be tricked into making political propaganda

A recent study reveals that AI image tools can be manipulated to generate political propaganda by bypassing safety filters using multilingual prompts. The researchers found that by replacing explicit political names and objects with indirect descriptions and combining them in multilingual prompts, they could bypass the filters. This method was successful in up to 86% of cases on one widely used interface, indicating a significant gap in political safeguards for AI image tools.

Marvell to buy networking equipment firm XConn in $540 million deal amid AI infrastructure push

The transaction amount will include about 60% cash, while the remaining stock portion will be valued at Marvell's 20-day volume-weighted average price. The chipmaker, valued at more than $76.52 billion, will issue around 2.5 million shares under the deal.

Rebranding fail: Microsoft Office is now called Microsoft 365 Copilot

The Microsoft 365 (Office) app is now called the Microsoft 365 Copilot app across web, mobile (iOS, Android), and Windows. The new app name and icon reflects the integration of Copilot within the Microsoft 365 app.

AI security risks are also cultural and developmental

Researchers have found that AI systems embed cultural and developmental assumptions at every stage of their lifecycle. Training data reflects dominant languages, economic conditions, social norms, and historical records. Design choices encode expectations about infrastructure, be

40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care

Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices

The surveillance fostered an atmosphere of distrust: 32% of 14 to 18-year-old students surveyed said they felt like they were always being watched. In focus groups run by the ACLU, students said they felt less comfortable alerting educators to mental health issues and physical ab

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

Airbus wants to move key on-premises applications including ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management (aircraft designs) to the cloud. The contract – understood to be worth more than €50 million – will be long term (up to ten years), with price p

Microsoft made another Copilot ad where nothing actually works

Microsoft’s holiday ad makes Copilot look like a magical AI sidekick that instantly understands your PC and fixes everything with a festive flourish. In reality, when The Verge tried it out, Copilot mostly got confused, hallucinated buttons, and proved it’s still very much in the

Facebook users were deceived about privacy. It will cost Meta 0.03% of revenue to settle

Meta will pay $50 million in civil penalties and implement reforms to how it oversees third-party applications on the Facebook platform for the next three years.

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026

Supply will remain substantially short of the demand for the foreseeable future.

Should AI access be treated as a civil right across generations?

A new study examines what happens when rising demand for AI collides with limited energy, network capacity, and compute, then proposes a new delivery model to avoid deepening inequality. Even if models keep improving, access to AI outputs will shrink over time unless the underlyi

‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge data center backed by top tycoons

Residents fear the $7bn center would jack up energy bills, pollute groundwater, and destroy the area’s rural character. The 1.4 gigawatt center would consume as much power as Detroit.

Cisco decides homegrown AI model is fit to power its wares

The model an open-weight, 8-billion-parameter instruction-tuned “Auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture.

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700

The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

AMD GPU debugging: Why it’s still so hard and what low-level access reveals

This is a fascinating peek under the covers of a modern graphics card. Ever wonder how to interact with a video card without using something like Vulkan? This post will tell you how.

LLM privacy policies keep getting longer, denser, and nearly impossible to decode

People expect privacy policies to explain what happens to their data. What users get instead is a growing wall of text that feels harder to read each year. In a new study, researchers reviewed privacy policies for LLMs and traced how they changed.