Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power |

Meta today announced three deals to provide its data centers with nuclear power: one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one…

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins |

AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise deals. Its latest entails bringing its large language models to a legacy German insurance giant. Anthropic…

X restricts Grok's image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world's ire |

In Brief Posted: 5:59 AM PST · January 9, 2026 Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers…

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis |

10:35 AM PST · January 8, 2026 Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms. “I think we’re…

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X |

2:08 PM PST · January 8, 2026 For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI…

Critics pan spyware maker NSO's transparency claims amid its push to enter US market |

NSO Group, one of the most well-known and controversial makers of government spyware, released a new transparency report on Wednesday, as the company enters what…

Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment |

Caterpillar is diving deeper into incorporating AI and automation into its fleet of construction machinery through a partnership with semiconductor giant Nvidia. The construction equipment…

JPMorgan Chase becomes the new issuer of the Apple Card |

In Brief Posted: 10:31 PM PST · January 7, 2026 Apple announced Wednesday that JPMorgan Chase is the new issuer of the Apple Card, replacing…

Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases |

In Brief Posted: 5:32 PM PST · January 7, 2026 In what may mark the tech industry’s first significant legal settlement over AI-related harm, Google…

Waymo is rebranding its Zeekr robotaxi |

6:43 PM PST · January 7, 2026 Waymo has spent the past three years refining and testing a minivan-like vehicle made by Chinese automaker Zeekr.…