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Meta Drawn Into Dispute Over Brazil’s Presidential Runoff
Brazilian President Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricted his content during the runoff, while a court ordered the company not to interfere and Meta attributed the problems to glitches.
Corporate AI Spending Shows Little Payoff Outside Tech
Apollo Global Management says U.S. companies outside the technology sector have seen no financial payoff from AI, with the technology increasingly viewed as a cost that hurts margins.
Replit Reportedly Shifts Most AI Spending to OpenAI
Replit reportedly moved most of its AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI after OpenAI offered a discount of more than 30 percent on a deal worth over $100 million annually.
Alpha School’s AI Learning Claims Face a Data Test
Alpha School says its AI-driven approach can help children learn twice as fast, but data shows roughly half of its K-8 students missed that goal in mathematics.
AI Boom Drives Demand for Ciena Networking Technology
Gary Smith, CEO of Ciena, says AI-related demand is outpacing supply for the company’s optical networking chips as he navigates another major telecommunications expansion.
Block Introduces Locally Running Speech-to-Speech AI
Block unveiled Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained entirely on human conversation that the company says can run locally on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max chip or newer hardware.
Ukraine Says Starshield Service Is Operating Normally Again
Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again Saturday morning after U.S. officials said Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service.
Meta Combines AI and Human Review to Identify Potential Threats
Meta’s law-enforcement outreach team uses AI alongside human reviewers to analyze social-media posts in an effort to identify and prevent threats including school shootings.
OpenAI Gives Vetted Partners Access to Advanced Cybersecurity Models
OpenAI’s Project Daybreak allows vetted partners to use its advanced hacking models to find and repair vulnerabilities, including work that helped uncover PHP2Shell remote-code-execution bugs.
PHP Foundation Faces Critical Security Work on a Small Budget
The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates with one full-time employee and 14 contractors on a limited budget.
Google Clarifies How Personal Intelligence Data May Be Used for Ads
Google updated its privacy policy to clarify that information shared through Personal Intelligence from connected applications, including Gmail and Google Photos, could be used for targeted advertising.
AWS Capacity Is Already Heavily Booked Through 2028
Andy Jassy says Amazon Web Services capacity for 2027 is largely sold out and a significant portion of 2028 capacity is also sold, although AWS keeps some capacity available for on-demand customers.
UK Commits £100 Million to New AI Biosecurity Lab
The UK plans to invest £100 million in an AI Biosecurity Lab intended to strengthen defenses against biological threats with support from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.
OpenAI Builds an Offline Web Environment for Frontier Model Training
OpenAI says it created an “offline world” using cached web content where isolated frontier models can learn to browse, search for information, and use web applications.
AI Film Studio Utopai Reaches $1 Billion Valuation
Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects underway, raised $60 million at a valuation of $1 billion.
Sources: Bloomberg; Apollo Global Management; The Information; New York Times; Wall Street Journal; The Verge; New Yorker; Forbes; Reuters; Android Authority; BBC; OpenAI.