Meta agrees to landmark $16B+ social media addiction settlement Bipartisan state coalition secures a historic agreement as Meta agrees to a landmark $16B+ social media addiction settlement. Claudia Cowan reports on the sweeping safety changes mandated the federal court. The social media giant must implement strict daily time limits, overnight blocks and robust age verification…
A dispatcher with Anne Arundel County Fire Department answers a 911 emergency call from their department dispatch center in Glen Burnie, Md., in 2020. 911 dispatchers have long dealt with swatting calls, where callers report a bomb threat, mass shooting or some other kind of life-threatening emergency with the intention of initiating a massive emergency…
OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) CFO Sarah Friar argued Tuesday that the company’s lightweight Luna model is far less expensive than competing open-weight Chinese models, while still offering strong overall performance. Open-weight models, or models that users can customize and run on their own hardware, are seen as a cost-saving measure for businesses that want to spend less…
Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury secretary, during an announcement on Trump Accounts in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. Annabelle Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. and China should “harbor no illusions” about their differences as they engage to contain the risks of artificial…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) backed Anthropic is embracing the language of superintelligence in its latest initial public offering filing, signaling a significant change in how the Claude developer presents its technology to Wall Street. The shift comes as the company prepares to raise as much as $64.4 billion in an IPO…
In an effort to make ChatGPT an even better consumer discovery engine, OpenAI is launching a host of new features designed to help companies control how users interact with their businesses. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a Business Hub that will serve as a place where companies can create business profiles that — in…
Bilt unveiled its transformed Neighborhood OS on Tuesday. (Bilt) Bilt, best known for helping renters earn rewards on housing payments, is expanding into local commerce with a new artificial intelligence platform aimed at helping businesses attract customers while giving consumers more ways to earn rewards close to home. The company announced Tuesday that it is…
A week ago, Anthropic told would-be investors that AI speeding up its own research might “imminently” trigger one of the company’s key safety alarms. On Tuesday, in the same filing that set a price range for its record-setting IPO, it said that has now happened. “We made a determination that we have met this threshold,”…
Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets. The launch of Anthropic’s new productivity-focused features comes just a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled a series of workplace tools…
Amazon on Tuesday introduced the Ring Drone Cam and the Ring Rover Cam. (Amazon) Amazon introduced an indoor security drone made by Ring, offering a flying camera to monitor areas stationary devices cannot reach, the company announced Tuesday. The company also unveiled the Ring Rover Cam, an autonomous security robot for businesses that patrols, investigates…