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The AI industry is experiencing a significant moment with Anthropic's prospectus revealing substantial losses alongside warnings about existential risks, while OpenAI has scrapped a new model rollout over safety concerns and announced the reopening of its $200 Pro subscription. Meanwhile, the sector is grappling with practical challenges including a critical Firebase SDK crash affecting iOS apps and broader concerns about data security, as the industry continues to attract major funding with ventures like Protego's $125 million Israeli defense tech fund and an ex-Tesla team's $12.5 million raise for supply chain automation.

NPM attack injects crypto-stealing malware into core JavaScript libraries

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries like chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software.

2025-09-08 · 18:34 UTC
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Why AI Keeps Making Stuff Up—And How to Fix It

2025-09-08 · 17:09

Hallucinations aren’t glitches—they’re the math working as designed.

Back to school: Teachers adopt new methods to tackle AI

2025-09-08 · 13:47

Professors and teachers are meeting the challenge of AI in the classroom by changing their methods.

EVE Frontier’s Free Trial Offers Players a Glimpse Into Cycle 2

2025-09-08 · 12:30

Players can access EVE Frontier’s free trial to explore Cycle 2, test survival mechanics, and earn in-game currency…

Will AI Push Artists Out of the Spotlight?

2025-09-08 · 11:05

Cloned Drake, TaTa invented by Timbaland, Grimes shares her voice...

OpenAI Takes on LinkedIn with AI-Powered Job Platform

2025-09-08 · 10:05

As artificial intelligence radically transforms the job market and particularly threatens several positions, OpenAI…

AI Is on the Verge of Its Biggest Upgrade Yet: Emotional Intelligence

2025-09-07 · 15:01

Two new research papers reveal agents that can hold consistent personalities and adapt their emotional tone in…

Breakdown: Applied Digital’s $11 Billion HPC Hosting Deal With CoreWeave

2025-09-07 · 06:30

Applied Digital’s $11B HPC deal puts it in the same league as Core Scientific and TeraWulf.

Microsoft Slips, But Big Tech Adds $420 Billion to the Stock Market

2025-09-06 · 19:05

In just three days, the American stock market witnessed a rare spectacle: eight of the largest tech companies saw their…

AI Will Be Used to 'Reconstruct' Lost Orson Welles Film 'The Magnificent Ambersons'

2025-09-06 · 17:01

Showrunner will create new footage to fill in the missing 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ 1942 classic, “The Magnificent…

Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented Compensation Deal

2025-09-06 · 14:30

Tesla is betting everything on Elon Musk with an unprecedented compensation plan.

Robinhood Joins S&P 500 As Crypto Firms Still Sidelined

2025-09-06 · 07:15

The latest revision of the S&P 500 does more than just redistribute the cards.

Hackers Use Ethereum Smart Contracts to Hide Malware in NPM Packages

2025-09-05 · 12:35

Two NPM packages used Ethereum smart contracts to conceal malicious URLs and install downloader malware Attackers…

XerpaAI: The First AI Growth Agent

2025-09-05 · 09:03

1.   What is XerpaAI and why did the team decide to start now? XerpaAI is inspired by the Sherpa.

Coinbase bets on AI to write half of its code by October

2025-09-05 · 07:05

Coinbase puts its engineers on a dry diet: AI already codes 40% of the in-house software.

SEC Watchdog Blames Tech Failures for Loss of Gary Gensler’s Texts in 2023

2025-09-05 · 06:55

Nearly a year of former Chair Gary Gensler’s government texts were erased after a chain of avoidable IT decisions, the…

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Buys Figma Stock Amid 20% Post-Earnings Drop

2025-09-05 · 05:25

Ark Invest disclosed a stake in Figma after its first earnings sent shares tumbling, as the firm stressed it’s focused…

Coinbase’s preferred AI coding tool can be hijacked by new virus

2025-09-05 · 04:05

Cybersecurity firm HiddenLayer has warned of a new virus that can inject malicious prompts into Cursor — an AI coding…

Figma's Shares Slide Following Earnings as Company Says It Isn't a Bitcoin Treasury

2025-09-04 · 23:47

Figma boss Dylan Field said Thursday that his company was not primarily focused on Bitcoin, but instead on design.

'CopyPasta' Attack Shows How Prompt Injections Could Infect AI at Scale

2025-09-04 · 20:48

AI coding tools can be tricked by fake license files to spread malicious code, security firm HiddenLayer warns.

Porsche Will Roll Out Wireless EV Charging in 2026

2025-09-04 · 19:51

Porsche's 11 kW wireless charging with the Cayenne Electric is the first large-scale rollout of cable-free EV charging…

Government Cybersecurity: The Urgent Need for a New Trust Infrastructure

2025-09-04 · 16:05

In July 2025, a Microsoft vulnerability exposed over 400 public organizations, including the U.S.

Sam Altman Says Rise in Twitter Bots Lends Credence to Dead Internet Theory

2025-09-04 · 09:30

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that “i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are…

US Fed to Host Payments Innovation Conference on Crypto and AI

2025-09-04 · 02:23

The Fed is bringing stablecoins, tokenization, and AI for payment technologies into one conversation as policy in…

AI Companions Are Grooming Kids Every 5 Minutes, New Report Warns

2025-09-03 · 23:29

Researchers posing as children on Character AI logged 669 harmful interactions in 50 hours, including grooming and drug…

Shein Accidentally Casts Alleged CEO Assassin Luigi Mangione as Its AI Model

2025-09-03 · 20:14

Fast fashion giant Shein scrambles after eagle-eyed shoppers spot Luigi Mangione's AI-generated face modeling a shirt.

Ozak AI’s $0.01 Presale Presents Massive Upside for Investors Brave Enough to Buy When Fear Dominates the Market

2025-09-03 · 14:01

Ozak AI has attracted attention with its $0.01 presale. The Phase 5 offering of the project has already attracted over 2.

Why is AI so concerning on American campuses?

2025-09-03 · 08:05

While American universities are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, from the University of Georgia to the…

Google Keeps Chrome as Judge Rejects Breakup: Here’s Why It Matters

2025-09-03 · 03:37

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Kite Secures $18M Series A to Power Agentic Web Infrastructure

2025-09-02 · 20:51

Today, Kite, a firm building the agentic web’s fundamental trust infrastructure, revealed that it had secured $18…

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