Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’ |

12:21 PM PDT · September 5, 2025 California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter…

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down |

12:27 PM PDT · September 5, 2025 Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company…

Screw the money — Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers |

Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class…

OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT's personality |

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch…

Musk's $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises |

Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are…

The growing debate over expanding age verification laws |

Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: while it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across…

EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’ |

10:06 AM PDT · September 6, 2025 The European Commission announced this week that it’s fining Google €2.95 billion (just under $3.5 billion). The commission…

Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction? |

On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent…

3 Days Left to Lock In Your Exhibitor Spot at Disrupt 2025

Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline…

Warp brings new diff-tracking tools to the AI coding arms race |

8:00 AM PDT · September 3, 2025 The AI coding tool Warp has a plan for making coding agents more comprehensible — and it looks…