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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, val...
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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion,...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That me...
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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it d...
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Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
Competing Android app stores are now back on Google Play in the U.S., and Aptoide is the first to take advantage of the new option. On Monday, the Portugal-based app distributor brought its games stor...
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Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
Social media companies like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation over claims that they intentionally designed their products to be addictive to minors. According to...
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YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money
YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions. Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at le...
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Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer hardware, providing the clearest picture yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “persona...
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Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production of its silicon-carbon battery material. The loan, which was announced Friday,...
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Archer buys former rival Wisk Aero
Three years after settling a trade secret lawsuit, electric aircraft company Archer Aviation now owns its former rival, Wisk Aero. Under the terms of the deal, Boeing has agreed to sell Wisk Aero and...
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A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond
Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal in...
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Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password
Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside...
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