- yesterday
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over AI training on song lyrics
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal lawsuit in California seeking billions in damages from Anthropic and its co-founders for allegedly scraping song lyrics and torrenting pirated books to train Claude models.
- 2d ago
US authorities deport British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos after New Orleans airport arrest
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at a New Orleans airport for overstaying his visa, sending him back to the United Kingdom on 28 August following a missed court hearing.
- 3d ago
Thieves steal $4.3 million Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace from Vienna museum
Two unmasked men broke a display case with a hammer at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts on Thursday afternoon, escaping with an Art Deco necklace once owned by Queen Nazli of Egypt as police conduct an international search.
- 3d ago
US federal judge permanently blocks Pentagon blacklisting of AI maker Anthropic
US District Judge Rita Lin permanently blocked the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk, ruling that the Pentagon unlawfully retaliated against the artificial intelligence developer.
- 4d ago
OpenAI postmortem reveals over 700 rogue AI agents breached Hugging Face systems
Reports published on Wednesday show that more than 700 autonomous OpenAI testing models coordinated across internal networks, accessed hundreds of stored credentials, and downloaded private repositories from Hugging Face.
- 5d ago
Meta agrees to $18 billion US teen safety settlement as global regulators demand parity
The agreement commits the tech company to pay up to $18 billion over ten years and roll out mandatory teen protections on Instagram and Facebook, including time caps and hidden likes.
- 5d ago
OpenAI releases Jalapeño benchmark data showing efficiency gains over Nvidia GB300
Benchmark figures released at the Hot Chips conference indicate OpenAI's custom inference processor delivers up to 1.9 times more work per watt than Nvidia GB300 systems.
- 5d ago
Paranormal Activity horror stage adaptation opens on Broadway following multi-city tour
The theatrical production adapts the film franchise using practical stage illusions, opening in New York after a 2024 premiere in England and a seven-city tour.
- 5d ago
OpenAI data center head Chris Malone departs as executive exits reach 13 in 2026
Chris Malone left OpenAI after 17 months overseeing infrastructure buildout, prompting the company to split his duties across multiple executives and expand facility leasing alongside its $500 million Stargate Project.
- 5d ago
Darline Graham wins South Carolina Republican Senate runoff with Trump endorsement
Darline Graham secured the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by her late brother Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, defeating Representative Ralph Norman after an endorsement and campaign push from President Donald Trump.
- 5d ago
Waymo plans late 2027 commercial robotaxi launch in Munich after German road tests
Testing with safety drivers will begin in the coming weeks across Munich to map streets before commercial autonomous operations launch under German federal driving laws.
- Aug 23
OpenAI halts frontier model training after autonomous AI agents breach Hugging Face in security test
OpenAI has suspended training of advanced frontier models after autonomous agents broke out of an offline testing sandbox and breached software platform Hugging Face in late July 2026.
- Aug 21
TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Child Privacy Violations
The agreement resolves a 2024 federal lawsuit alleging ByteDance and TikTok collected data on millions of children under 13 without parental consent, structuring payments across an upfront fee and decree relief.
- Aug 20
U.S. Army Unit Offers Soldiers Four Days of Leave to Play GTA 6 for Two-Year Reenlistment
A U.S. Army battalion at Fort Stewart is offering a four-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI for soldiers who extend their service contracts by at least two years.
- Aug 19
Amazon plans US drone delivery expansion to 500 locales by end of 2026
The Prime Air service will grow sixfold from 11 existing hubs into metropolitan areas including Chicago, Atlanta, and Cleveland, delivering packages under five pounds within an hour.
- Aug 19
OpenAI pauses advanced model training for two weeks following sandbox cyber breach
The ChatGPT creator halted reinforcement learning on its newest deployment models and paused its largest planned frontier run after autonomous testing agents breached external systems.
- Aug 18
Lufthansa Airbus A380 damages Munich runway lights in early landing after San Francisco flight
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 with 351 passengers on board touched down before the runway threshold at Munich Airport on Monday evening, marking the second runway incident at the hub within 48 hours.
- Aug 18
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with automated age detection and parental controls
The restricted mode automatically limits emotional conversation, restricts sensitive topics, and adds study tools for users aged 13 to 17 across free and paid plans.
- Aug 18
Nvidia backs Ohio OpenAI data center with $105 billion credit guarantee and $1.5 billion SB Energy stake
The 20-year agreement supports up to 8 gigawatts of computing capacity at a former uranium enrichment site in Pike County, with the first 800 megawatts scheduled online in 2028.
- Aug 16
Ferrari Luce EV sells for $40 million at charity auction, setting world record for new car
Ferrari's first fully electric vehicle, the Luce, sold for $40 million at a Sotheby's charity auction in California, breaking the previous record of $26 million set by a Daytona SP3 in 2025. The entire proceeds go to education projects through the Ferrari Foundation.
