A federal prosecutor in New York charged Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using early access to internal Google information to place cryptocurrency bets on Polymarket that returned about $1.2 million…
Phillips Distilling shifted some production of its Sour Puss liqueur to Canada after provincial bans on U.S. liquor cut its Canadian sales by about 70 percent. The company said moving…
The U.S. Department of Commerce granted Volvo Cars a specific authorization to continue importing and selling vehicles that include Chinese-connected car technology, exempting the automaker from recent U.S. restrictions. The…
The third-party site UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passport images and selfie photos uploaded by applicants, a security lapse that TechCrunch says affected at least 100,000 documents before…
YouTube said it will apply AI labels automatically when its systems detect significant photorealistic AI in a video, and it will make those labels more prominent across long-form uploads and…
The Chinese government has begun requiring some leading AI researchers, startup founders, and private-sector executives to seek approval before traveling abroad, according to Bloomberg, effectively narrowing opportunities for international movement.…
The Boston startup SOND emerged from stealth with $7 million in funding and introduced Dreambuds, an in-ear system that captures 12 physiological signals and uses a cloud-based AI sleep coach…
The voice AI company ElevenLabs launched Music v2, a music-generation model that can switch genres mid-track and handle complex vocals and composition. The model allows artists to edit song sections…
The Federal Aviation Administration has declared SpaceX’s May 22 Starship Flight 12 a mishap and ordered a SpaceX-led investigation that the FAA will oversee and approve, pausing further Starship test…
The Shadow Brokers, an unidentified group that appeared in 2016 and released hacking tools believed to come from the NSA, remain unmasked ten years later. Their dump helped expose powerful…
Universal Music Group and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a new commitment to remove unauthorized AI-generated music and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The agreement marks a shift…
Spotify is bringing narrated long-form magazine articles into its app, expanding beyond music, podcasts, and audiobooks as it pushes further into “everything audio.” Premium subscribers will get the articles as…
BP has removed chairman Albert Manifold with immediate effect after serious concerns over governance standards, oversight and conduct, with the BBC understanding that bullying and overbearing behaviour were among the…