10 Apr OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
10 Apr China Is Cracking Down on Scams. Just Not the Ones Hitting Americans As Beijing clamps down on fraud at home, researchers say crime syndicates are shifting their focus to victims elsewhere.
10 Apr The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley’s Giants Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.
09 Apr Conflicting Rulings Leave Anthropic in ‘Supply-Chain Risk’ Limbo A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military can use the AI company’s Claude model.
09 Apr As the Strait of Hormuz Reopens, Global Shipping Will Take Months to Recover After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. But backlogs, infrastructure damage, and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.
09 Apr Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid’s Table Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
08 Apr The iPhone Gets a D– for Repairability It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst with a D.
08 Apr Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
08 Apr Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything The AI lab’s Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They’ll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
07 Apr A Single Strike Won’t Shut Off the Gulf’s Desalination System The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.
