The Department of Defense has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply chain risk. This designation comes after weeks of conflict between the AI lab and the DOD. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei…
Italian authorities have confirmed that a journalist who received a warning from WhatsApp last year about a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked. In a press release issued on Thursday, public prosecutors’ offices in Rome and Naples…
Chinese automaker BYD unveiled a new battery pack on Thursday that the company says is capable of charging from 10% to 70% in just five minutes. Taking the battery to almost full takes only about four minutes more. Recharge times…
Amazon has begun rolling out a redesigned Fire TV mobile app to customers. The updated app transforms your smartphone into a full companion for your TV. Previously limited to functioning as a backup remote, the new version allows you to…
Elon Musk’s X announced a major update to its Creator Subscriptions on Thursday. The revamp introduces several new features designed to help creators build their audiences and improve their earnings. These include exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new…
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model described as their most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work. The model is available in a standard version, as well as a specialized reasoning model called GPT-5.4 Thinking and…
A new report from Google reveals a significant shift in the focus of cyber attackers. Last year, approximately half of all tracked zero-day bugs targeted enterprise devices, setting a new record. Zero-day bugs are vulnerabilities unknown to the software maker…
AI video-generation startup Luma launched Luma Agents on Thursday. This new platform is designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. The agents are powered by Luma’s Unified Intelligence family of models, which are built on…
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Roblox has announced a new real-time, AI-powered chat rephrasing feature. This system automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, moving beyond the platform’s current text filter that simply replaces phrases with the “#” symbol. The company stated that when…
