OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting
Edelson PC is filing 30 more lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, for the first time accusing it of aiding and abetting the attack.
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621 storiesThrive's Kushner defends FIFA role, hires Musk's go-to lawyer
Thrive Capital's Josh Kushner said he regrets backing FIFA's collapsed $4.2 billion share plan, entangled in a dispute that could bring criminal charges against FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
Florida and Texas move to block Flock license-plate cameras
Florida and Texas are ending state use of Flock's license-plate readers after reports of misuse, including the indictment of a Texas officer on 100 felony counts.
Apple shares 'shocking evidence' against ex-employee tied to OpenAI
Apple filed new evidence, including a laptop, alleging former employee Chang Liu — now at OpenAI — used stolen trade secrets and helped destroy evidence.
Andreessen-Horowitz-backed group plans data-center ads for midterms
Build American AI, tied to the Andreessen Horowitz- and Greg Brockman-backed super PAC Leading the Future, plans data-center ads in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin ahead of the midterms.
FTC sues Amazon over alleged 'secret ad surcharge scheme'
The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon, alleging it secretly raised advertiser ad-auction prices for over seven years, potentially adding tens of billions in revenue.
Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets
Prediction market Kalshi banned former congressman George Santos for life and fined him $71,356 over bets tied to his own attendance at Trump's State of the Union.
AI-driven bug hunting could revive the encryption 'backdoor' debate
Cryptography professor Matthew Green argues AI could make bugs so scarce that governments lose their main tool for lawfully hacking suspects.
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic over alleged piracy campaign
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other publishers sued Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of torrenting and scraping copyrighted works to train Claude.
Survey finds more Americans oppose police license-plate cameras than support them
A new YouGov survey of 20,000 people found 46% of Americans oppose surveillance cameras from companies like Flock in their communities, versus 38% who support them — a reversal from last year.
Federal judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic risk label unlawful
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal, amounting to unlawful retaliation against the AI company.
Meta's up to $18B child-safety settlement includes a pass on kids' data use
Meta's settlement with 29 state attorneys general — paying up to $18 billion and adding child-safety measures — also grants the company a release from COPPA claims over how it uses children's data to build an age-detection model.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100+ firms urge joint defense against rogue AI
Over a hundred tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, signed an open letter urging the private and public sectors to jointly build defenses against AI-related cyber threats.
Australian police arrest two accused of leading TeamPCP hacking spree
Australian police arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a hacking group blamed for breaches at Mercor, OpenAI, and more than a thousand other organizations.
Meta's child-safety deal depends on age checks that still don't work well
Meta's $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states over children's safety rests on age-verification technology that experts say remains unreliable, even as the company touts the deal's design changes as historic.
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet tied to NASA, DOJ, Senate hacks
The FBI seized a series of domains used by a large-scale, allegedly China-backed botnet, which the Justice Department says targeted NASA, the Justice Department itself, and the US Senate as recently as 2026.
Meta to cap teen screen time, add night lockout under $18B settlement
Meta agreed Wednesday, as part of an $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states over children's safety, to a daily two-hour time limit, a midnight-to-6-a.m. lockout, and other sweeping restrictions on how minors use Instagram and Facebook.
Ring adopts new TAKE encryption standard as cloud-feature default
Amazon's Ring is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE as the default for video encryption, rolling out worldwide starting in September while still allowing users to opt into end-to-end encryption.
Bill Gates proposes a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to blunt AI's labor impact
Bill Gates published an essay proposing a "robot tax" on labor-replacing automation and designating certain jobs "Human Reserved," arguing the current tax system nudges employers toward machines over people.
CISA says hackers targeted over 100 US water systems in July
CISA said it observed cyberattacks on more than 100 internet-exposed US water and wastewater systems in July, part of an ongoing wave of hacks on American critical infrastructure.