Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly…
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Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding. James is…
YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a “Made with AI” label to tracks that were “altered or fully generated” using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels…
OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of…
Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts
Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company…
Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is an alarming deja vu
Are legions of smart devices — fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs — conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts…
Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’
Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is “way faster” and now supports Linux. But the company,…
India’s IT exports: Deliver the code, chase the cash
The $672,102 export nightmare of a Bengaluru tech firm (for illustration) | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Bengaluru technology company says it is still waiting for $672,102 from an overseas…
Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home | TechCrunch
Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman believes we’re nearing a future where everyone will have an AI appliance in their own home. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026…
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting recording device
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that…