A federal choose in California ruled on Thursday night that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a provide chain danger was unlawful. U.S. District Choose Rita Lin stated in her ruling that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s labeling of Anthropic as a danger to nationwide safety signified “illegal retaliation” in violation of the First Modification,…
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on certainly one of its programs has been declared a “main incident,” a proper, legally outlined classification that prompts a proper notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF mentioned in a statement that it’s responding to the cyberattack on a stand-alone system…
The sport of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Pondering Machines who left the corporate earlier this yr to rejoin OpenAI, has discovered one more job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Pondering Machines with Mira Murati, who had left…
A trip to Europe often means adjusting to a lot of walking, but don’t let it fool you: cars are still the default for urban mobility. However, entrepreneurs are seeking to challenge this status quo — and the first step is understanding why it is so ingrained. For Belgian startup Any, the only way to…
YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S. can now tag Amazon products in their content and receive a cut of sales. Creators can link Amazon products in their shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams. The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts…
In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: The states have agreed not to sue Meta under existing child safety laws over its retention and use of children’s data. That permission is being granted for the…
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of its AI models, ruling that the designation amounted to unconstitutional retaliation. The decision handed down by US district judge Rita Lin in California vacated the February 27 decision by defense secretary Pete…
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio. It ships as two endpoints, not one. gemini-3.5-transcribe handles pre-recorded files through the Interactions API. gemini-3.5-transcribe-live handles bidirectional streaming through the Live API. Google reports average word error rates of 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming, as measured by Artificial…
After including assist for longer movies simply yesterday, open social community Bluesky on Thursday introduced a brand new algorithmic opt-out function that permits customers to cease their posts from showing within the app’s principal Uncover feed. That algorithmic feed can at the moment floor any submit on Bluesky’s community, as posts on the community are…
Rivian’s chief monetary officer Claire McDonough is resigning her place on the finish of October, the corporate introduced in a regulatory filing Thursday. The corporate mentioned McDonough is stepping all the way down to “pursue a brand new alternative and relocate to the East Coast to be nearer to her household.” McDonough has been employed…
