Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gai…
The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months…
A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case with prejudice on Monday, meaning xAI cannot bring the same claims again. Lin said…
Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes…
Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across the platform. The feature surfaces information from Facebook Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings, turning years of user-genera…
Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling …
For seven years, He Tingbo worked in silence. The head of Huawei’s semiconductor business, widely known as the company’s “chip queen,” vanished from public view in 2019 after Washington severed the Chinese company’s access to advanced technology. Her r…
YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its ina…
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Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that could have let an attacker steal emails, calendar entries, and indexed files with a single click. The attack, which Varonis…