Meta is banning the ‘pervert glasses’ creeps from Instagram

Meta has a nickname problem. Its Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned an ugly label: “pervert glasses”. Men wear them to film women in the street. Pranksters wear them to ambush shop workers. Now Ins [...]

A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, t [...]

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a Californ [...]

Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s techn [...]

OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical r [...]

Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings

Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them dedicated tools for managing listings, communicating with buyers, and tracking sales [...]

Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.

Anthropic wants you to talk to Claude, and then watch it act. On Thursday it upgraded Claude’s voice mode to run on its most capable models, Opus and Sonnet, the company announced. Voice mode launch [...]

Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail

A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite its end-to-end encryption promises, ruling that the complaint lacked sufficient deta [...]

Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence

Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set [...]