Forgive me for going off the wall a little today, but what’s interesting about the judgment made concerning the Google-Apple search deal isn’t that not much will change, it’s that it suggests that exclusive deals between generative AI firms and Big Tech will not be permitted. That’s going to spell interesting times ahead, as the genAI firms

Google will no longer have to divest Chrome and Android businesses as a federal judge ruled in its favor in a search antitrust case, while acknowledging AI as a new competitive force. US Federal Judge Amit P. Mehta delivered the landmark ruling on Monday, rejecting the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) demand to break up the

The controversial Data Privacy Framework (DPF) agreement between the EU and the US has been upheld after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) General Court rejected a high-profile legal challenge that would have struck it down. “The General Court dismisses an action for annulment of the new framework for the transfer of personal data between

A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Talk about turned tables — and a striking ethical paradox. In an interview with Politico, Skinner claimed that he and his team of volunteers have so far been able to

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when

Paranoia is as natural to Silicon Valley as lip fillers are to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a startup founder convinced everyone is out to steal his ideas or poach his staff — a state of mind reaffirmed by the fact that sometimes, people very much are

When Elon Musk’s Grok AI had a Nazi meltdown the other month and started calling itself “MechaHitler,” the General Services Administration — the agency in charge of government technology — quietly dropped its plans to use it by removing it from a list of approved vendors. Now, it looks like the White House has swooped

Meta is revising how its AI chatbots interact with users after a series of reports exposed troubling behaviour, including interactions with minors. The company told TechCrunch it is now training its bots not to engage with teenagers on topics like self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders, and to avoid romantic banter. These are temporary steps while

A new AI tool – built to help companies find and fix their own security weaknesses – has been snatched up by cybercriminals, turned on its head, and used as a devastating hacking weapon exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report from cybersecurity firm Check Point, the framework – called Hexstrike-AI – is the turning

Anthropic has closed a massive $13 billion Series F funding round that values the AI company at $183 billion post-money. The financing was led by ICONIQ, with co-leads Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners joining the round. This investment marks one of the largest funding rounds in AI history and reflects strong