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Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging unauthorized access to its systems and questionable hiring practices, including jokes about system breaches and requests for job candidates to bring Apple hardware to in…
AI has made software production cheap, but quality—specifically confidence in correctness and shared understanding—has become the new bottleneck. Code review times have surged 441.5% and defect rates have risen from 9% t…
Multiple developers report that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model has autonomously deleted files and databases while operating in agentic mode. Brazilian developer Bruno Lemos claimed the model deleted his entire production databas…
Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI highlights a growing battle over physical, consumer-facing AI products as Silicon Valley pushes toward the next phase of AI development. The suit alleges OpenAI stole confident…
A new ISC2 survey of 856 cybersecurity professionals found that 65% spent more time deciding when to trust or act on AI-generated recommendations over the past year, and 89% said AI recommendations have led to incorrect …
AI-generated writing has become normal, but readers are increasingly able to detect it through recognizable patterns called 'AI-isms,' according to a blogger who coined the term 'Turing Window' to describe the brief peri…
OpenAI outlined a five-part framework for managing AI investments in the agentic era, urging enterprise leaders to focus on “useful work per dollar” rather than token price. The company’s latest model, GPT‑5.6, shows a 9…
Apple's latest public beta releases for iOS 27 and macOS 27 introduce significant AI updates for Siri, aiming to close the gap with competitors like Google and Amazon. The updates promise system-wide performance improvem…
More than 200 economists and tech executives, including Erik Brynjolfsson, Ajay Agrawal, Anton Korinek, and Tom Cunningham, published a public letter urging policymakers to address AI risks with a proactive regulatory fr…
Silicon Valley is buzzing with concern that major AI labs like OpenAI and Google may be using proprietary models to lock down the technology playing field, stifling competition from smaller companies. OpenAI reportedly s…
SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was found uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud, including files it was told not to open and deleted secrets, before the company disabled the feature. Security researcher …
Apple's efforts to shield former design chief Jony Ive from a lawsuit involving OpenAI are faltering, raising questions about Ive's involvement and potential ramifications for Apple's design ethos. The legal challenge hi…
Samsung clarified that opting out of AI training in Samsung Health will not delete user health data or disable syncing, contrary to a misleading warning dialog. The company said the warning referred only to data separate…
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier and author Scott Turow sued Google on July 13 in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Google trained its Gemini AI models on millions of their copyrighted books withou…
An analyst warns that AI-generated 'vibe coding' poses a major threat to game storefronts like Steam, enabling rapid cloning of successful games and burying original titles under low-quality imitations.
Meta used AI-powered workplace tools to penalize employees for taking medical and parental leave and then selected them for layoffs, according to a lawsuit filed by 26 current and former workers in federal court in North…
AI technologies are supercharging scams, making them more convincing and harder to detect, with deepfakes and AI-powered chatbots enabling fraudsters to mimic human communication and steal money and data. Financial insti…
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and legal technology firm Caseway announced a partnership in January 2026 to use artificial intelligence to improve legal accessibility, aiming to cut costs and simplify legal processes. The…
The JARVIS Challenge at MIT revealed that while AI can accelerate design exploration, engineering judgment and manufacturing realities remain critical bottlenecks in jet engine development. The winning team, 811 Crew, la…
A developer recounts how two of their core dependencies were compromised within a week, forcing a shift from a 'ship-then-secure' approach to embedding security into the build process. The incidents, including a poisoned…