The year age verification laws came for the open internet

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and G [...]

Microsoft Opens 26 Open Models to Startups Through Fireworks AI on Foundry

Microsoft is pushing its newly generally available Fireworks AI integration at the startup segment, publishing a deployment blueprint on August 4, 2026 that pairs a reference architecture for running [...]

Fireworks AI Makes Training API Generally Available

Fireworks AI on August 31, 2026 announced the general availability of its Training API and Fireworks Lab, opening its managed training and rollout infrastructure to ML teams that want to run custom tr [...]

DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved

The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably mo [...]

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-tim [...]

Utah is poised to pass an age verification law for app stores

Utah has once again passed a bill that attempts to place new limits on children’s ability to access social media and other apps. The state legislature passed a bill that requires app store makers to [...]

Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it

The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values th [...]

Are VPNs legal?

VPNs have a mixed reputation, primarily because you can use the technology to hide your location and identity on the internet. Even the best VPNs can be used to conceal crimes and make the perpetrator [...]

ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules

ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules. [...]