Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments

Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the la [...]

Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats supp [...]

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and govern [...]

GSR Ventures uses its RedNote stake to anchor a new $350M China fund

SR Ventures Management Co., one of the earliest backers of the Chinese social commerce app Xiaohongshu, is raising about $350m for a new China-focused venture fund and is using its existing stake in t [...]

Meta AI already has 1 billion active users

Mark Zuckerberg told the company's shareholders that Meta's artificial intelligence now has 1 billion monthly active users across all its apps, according to CNBC. He also said during the ann [...]

Engadget's favorite games of 2025

From indies like Silksong, to AAAs like Ghost of Yotei, and everything in between, 2025 truly had it all, and is likely to go down in the history books as one of the best years in gaming. But these ar [...]

Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes

Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according [...]

Don't panic about Moltbook

The rise of a social network for AI agents exposes how far autonomous AI has come — and how far it still has to go [...]

Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage

Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting use [...]