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Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold, and that social media scams resulted…
OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while…
DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind…
Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to U.S. Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S.…
Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more…
Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as…
What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch U.S. software in favor of sovereign tech Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers. Governments across Europe are looking…
China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents. China…
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says. The phone could go in mass production…
Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses. The American…