Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk

Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a…

AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire

AT&T, which already shed more than half of its workforce over the past decade, says it’s going to continue laying off staff as it gears…

Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing

Meta is formally ending what amounted to a tokenmaxxing incentive program for employees. In an internal announcement this week, the social media giant told workers…

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former…

AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

AI-generated videos and pictures are destroying one of the largest and most enduring sources of joy and compassion on the internet: animals. Whether the imagery…

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,”…

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Last week, US regulators banned a wide variety of Chinese-made robots from being imported to the United States because of concerns about national security. Saurabh…

LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

Unlike many other big tech platforms, LinkedIn has decided it won’t spend aggressively on expanding its AI data centers this fiscal year. Executives at the…

Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

A decade ago, Ryan Carrier was a failed hedge fund manager watching as AI systems began to spin out of control. Facebook’s algorithms shook US…

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

Meta is pausing a divisive employee tracking program after an internal security issue exposed potentially sensitive data collected through the initiative to other workers. “We…