Anthropic Outages Disrupt Claude and Console Services
Anthropic reported a temporary service outage Wednesday that affected its APIs, Console, and Claude AI. Timeline of the Disruption Issues were first spotted by users on GitHub and Hacker News…
Meta Expands Community Notes With Alerts for Corrected Posts
Meta is rolling out updates to its Community Notes fact-checking system, which it launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will now be notified…
Reddit Replaces Subreddit Member Totals With Active User Stats
Reddit has begun phasing out the long-standing Member Count feature on communities, replacing it with two new statistics: Visitors and Contributions. Visitors uses a 28-day rolling average to display how…
Reddit and Ziff Davis Support Effort to Keep AI From Breaking the Internet
Artificial intelligence may be reshaping the internet, but it is also straining its foundation: information. Chatbots consume vast amounts of web content, yet there is still no consistent way to…
Reddit Debuts New Tools to Help Publishers Track and Share Stories
Reddit announced Wednesday that it is launching new tools for publishers to better track and distribute their stories on the platform. The features are part of Reddit Pro, a suite…
Jaguar Land Rover Confirms Data Theft in Major Cyberattack
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of company data was stolen in a cyberattack that has halted vehicle assembly lines. Data Theft and Notification Rules In…
Grammarly Expands With Spelling and Grammar Support for Five New Languages
Grammarly, best known for its English spelling and grammar tools, is expanding its reach. The company announced that its writing assistance features will now support Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and…
Apple Watch Gains Ability to Detect Hypertension
Apple revealed its latest Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 on Tuesday, highlighting its first attempt at blood pressure monitoring. How the Feature Works The new system…
Bigfoot, Orca, and Treasure Chest Among Upcoming Emoji Additions
The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit body that decides which emojis appear across devices, has confirmed its next batch of additions. These emojis will arrive on smartphones and other platforms over…
Oura CEO Responds to Criticism, Envisions Future of Connected Wearables
Oura CEO Tom Hale pushed back against claims that the company shared health data with the U.S. government or Palantir, a data-mining firm tied to defense and law enforcement agencies.…
Plex Advises Password Reset Following Data Breach
Streaming platform Plex is asking customers to reset their passwords after disclosing a security breach involving one of its user databases. In a post on Monday, the company confirmed that…
Nvidia Introduces GPU Built for Long-Context AI Inference
At the AI Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, Nvidia introduced the Rubin CPX, a new GPU designed to handle context windows exceeding 1 million tokens. Focus on Long-Context AI The Rubin…
Whistleblower Claims Meta Concealed VR Risks to Children
A group of whistleblowers from Meta has accused the company of covering up internal research that showed harmful effects of its virtual reality products on children. The claims center on…
Apple Faces Lawsuit Alleging Pirated Books Were Used to Train AI
Apple is the latest tech company to face legal action over the alleged use of pirated books in AI training datasets. Authors Accuse Apple of Copyright Infringement In a lawsuit…
Google Pulls Pixel 10’s Daily Hub While It Preps Updates
One of Google’s headline AI tools for the Pixel 10 series has been taken offline just weeks after launch. The Daily Hub feature, designed to personalize the Android experience, is…
Nepal PM Oli Resigns After Deadly Protests Over Social Media Ban
Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest triggered by a social media ban escalated into deadly violence and defiance of a nationwide curfew. Deadly…
Russia Plans Internet Blackouts Targeting WhatsApp, Telegram, and YouTube
Following a series of restrictions on foreign-owned platforms since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is preparing to block major apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Google, and YouTube in a new…
Spotify Rolls Out Smart Filters to Help Users Organize Libraries Their Way
Spotify has launched a new feature called Smart Filters to help users improve how they arrange and manage their music libraries. Smarter Ways to Organize Your Library Instead of simply…
PayPal Partners With Perplexity to Offer AI Features and Member Perks
PayPal has partnered with AI startup Perplexity to provide U.S.-based PayPal and Venmo users — along with select international markets — access to unique perks designed to expand its consumer…
OpenAI Restructures Research Team Shaping ChatGPT’s Personality
OpenAI is reshaping its Model Behavior team, a small but influential research group tasked with shaping how the company’s AI models interact with users. Internal Reorganization In an August memo…