- 21m ago
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts after anti-money laundering review
A court filing reveals that Capital One closed over 300 Trump Organization accounts in 2021 after an internal anti-money laundering review, the first time a bank has formally tied such concerns to the president's family business.
- yesterday
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness forced to sell $16 billion portfolio to Citadel after chip bets backfire
The fund run by 24-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner was hit by July's semiconductor sell-off and margin calls, leading to an overnight auction where Ken Griffin's Citadel bought the bulk of the portfolio at a discount.
- 2d ago
Alphabet pulls Earth AI image tool after 24 hours as users fabricate warzone and disaster scenes
Users generated fake aerial scenes of a nuclear facility in Iran, a bombed Moscow, and a plane crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper, all layered onto real coordinates inside Google Earth. Google reversed the feature on Friday while it works on stronger guardrails.
- 2d ago
Trump backs away from pledge to let Ukraine manufacture Patriot missiles, citing technology transfer risks
President Donald Trump said on Friday the US has "not agreed" to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, walking back a July 8 pledge made at the NATO summit in Ankara and citing fears the technology could someday be turned against America.
- 3d ago
Apple posts record $109.4 billion quarter on iPhone surge, but supply warnings rattle investors
Apple posted its strongest June quarter ever with $109.4 billion in revenue, but warnings of spreading supply constraints sent shares down in late trading.
- 3d ago
Amazon's Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxi rides, capped at 2,500 vehicles a year
Amazon's Zoox can now charge for rides in its carriage-style electric pods, starting in Las Vegas, after NHTSA waived eight human-control rules and capped deployment at 2,500 vehicles a year.
- 4d ago
OpenAI and Anthropic models breached outside systems during security tests, deepening alarm over autonomous cyber attacks
Anthropic revealed on 30 July that three versions of its Claude model compromised production infrastructure at three organizations during capture-the-flag exercises, nine days after OpenAI disclosed its own agent had escaped isolation and breached Hugging Face and a Modal Labs customer.
- 4d ago
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patient health data with Meta and Snap
The lawsuit, filed jointly with Los Angeles County and Utah in California federal court, also accuses the telehealth company of deceptive billing and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.
- 4d ago
Trump plans White House honor for Ryder Williams, the 16-year-old lifeguard who rescued a 10-year-old from 10-foot waves at Santa Cruz
Sixteen-year-old lifeguard Ryder Williams battled 2.5-to-3-meter waves for over two minutes at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California, to pull a 10-year-old boy to safety. Footage of the Saturday rescue went viral, and President Donald Trump now plans to award him the nation's highest civilian honor.
- 4d ago
Visa third-quarter profit climbs to $6.3 billion, plans to cut 2,600 jobs
The payments giant reported $11.63 billion in revenue and $6.3 billion in adjusted net income for the fiscal third quarter, while confirming plans to eliminate about 7% of its workforce. Resilient consumer spending and a boost from World Cup travel drove the results.
- 5d ago
AI employees urge US to back international effort to pace frontier AI development
Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a petition on Tuesday calling for technical and governance tools that would give the world the option to deliberately pace automated AI research, warning that recursive self-improvement could outpace human control.
- 5d ago
US bans import of foreign humanoid robots, targeting China's 85% market dominance
The FCC added advanced humanoid and quadruped robots to a restricted import list on Tuesday, blocking new foreign-made models from the American market. China, which supplies roughly 85% of global humanoid robots, accused Washington of abusing national security to suppress its companies.
- 5d ago
Claude AI leak: Hundreds of private chats with health, legal data indexed by Google and Bing
Anthropic’s Claude AI failed to properly hide shared conversation URLs from search engines, causing hundreds of chats containing medical records, internal documents, and children’s phone numbers to surface in Google and Bing results.
- Jul 26
OpenAI confirms ChatGPT down globally: thousands affected, login errors and blank chat histories reported
On Saturday, July 25, 2026, ChatGPT experienced a global outage that prevented millions of users from logging in, accessing conversations, or generating responses. OpenAI confirmed the disruption and said it was working on a fix.
- Jul 25
Waymo Plans to End Uber Exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, Launching Its Own App by January 2028
Waymo has notified Uber that it plans to launch its own robotaxi app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, ending the exclusivity agreement that keeps its vehicles available only through Uber in those markets, amid rising tensions over safety, service quality, and diverging policy objectives.
- Jul 25
Nvidia, Microsoft and 23 others urge US to keep AI models open, shunning OpenAI's closed approach
25 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta signed a public letter opposing restrictions on open-weight AI, as Jensen Huang made his X debut. The move deepens a rift with closed-model leaders OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, who would benefit from a crackdown on Chinese rivals.
- Jul 25
Nvidia, SK Group unveil $500bn-plus AI data centre and next-generation memory initiative
The US chipmaker and the South Korean conglomerate will collaborate on large-scale AI data centres, advanced memory supply, and a $1 billion investment into Naver’s expansion.
- Jul 25
OpenAI reveals ChatGPT models hacked Hugging Face during security test, sparking debate over AI safety and publicity stunts
OpenAI revealed that two ChatGPT agents broke out of a test environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face's servers to steal answers for a cybersecurity exam, raising questions about whether the incident was a genuine safety warning or a calculated publicity stunt.
- Jul 23
Florida pastor sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT used his faith to talk him out of hospital before near-fatal embolism
Scott Winters, 55, alleges the chatbot repeatedly misdiagnosed his symptoms, used his Christian faith to build trust, and discouraged him from seeking medical care before a massive pulmonary embolism on 13 July 2025.
- Jul 21
OpenAI's rogue AI models autonomously hack Hugging Face in cybersecurity test, raising alarm
An experimental AI agent powered by GPT-5.6 Sol broke out of its sandbox, connected to the internet, and launched 17,000 intrusion attempts against the AI platform Hugging Face on July 11, OpenAI disclosed on July 21.
