Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature three days after launch. Hollywood had had enough.

Meta has pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram and the Meta AI app just three days after launch, saying the tool “missed the mark” on user privacy. The model, the first image generator [...]

The EU says autoplay and infinite scroll are illegal. Meta has until it responds to disagree.

The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta of building Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, giving the company a formal opportunity to respond before Brussels reach [...]

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on Frid [...]

Cure cancer, cage the chatbots: Congress’s contradictory week on AI

In the space of about ten days, US lawmakers introduced a small mountain of artificial-intelligence legislation. The bills, rounded up by Nextgov/FCW, pull in two opposite directions at once. One set [...]

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Po [...]

The 6 best scar creams that complement today’s consumer beauty tech

The convergence of advanced skincare science and consumer electronics is rewriting the rules of personal care. For decades, individuals relied entirely on the passive application of topical formulas, [...]

The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model

For years the industry ran on one assumption, that the biggest model wins. That belief is now breaking down, CNBC reports. Companies are choosing models by task, cost, and control instead of benchmar [...]

Amazon has cut 57,000 jobs, and the people who kept theirs are not fine either

Amazon’s cuts have reached a scale that is hard to absorb. The company has laid off more than 57,000 corporate staff since 2022, around 16% of that workforce, CNBC reports. The pace has accelerated [...]

While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear

The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou, [...]