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Google to pay $340 million to settle Italian tax case
Milan prosecutors plan to drop a case brought against the European division of Google after the company agreed to pay €326 million ($340 million) to settle a tax claim.
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No product, no revenue – but a $30B valuation for Sutskever’s AI startup
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is far less outspoken than his former colleague Sam Altman. Nevertheless, Sutskever is now also making waves in the AI world – even with no product on offer.
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Why we’re more passive-aggressive online than ever
Social media thrives on approval, but rejection has its own digital language.
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DeepSeek sent user data to ByteDance, Seoul confirms
The South Korean data protection regulator confirmed on Tuesday that the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek sent user data to the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance.
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TorrentGalaxy’s mysterious downtime sparks speculation
TorrentGalaxy, one of the largest torrent sites, has mysteriously gone offline, leaving users wondering if it's a temporary glitch or a final shutdown.
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Office jobs vs manual labor: who survives the AI revolution?
For years, automation was expected to eliminate factory jobs first. But with AI replacing junior coding roles faster than manual labor, the future of work is shifting.
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OpenAI boasts about success of reinforcement learning: is AGI now close?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raised the eyebrows of many when he said that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is just a matter of scaling up. Surely it’s not that simple, is it? Well, stunning new model achievements suggest that progress is happening very quickly.
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Nippon Steel claimed by BianLian ransomware group
Nippon Steel, the world’s fourth-largest crude steel producer, has allegedly suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of the BianLian ransomware group. It keeps the steel manufacturing giant front and center in the news after an already tumultuous start to 2025.
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Three ways AI can be turned against us
Seventy-seven percent of organizations have experienced an AI security breach in the past two years. This highlights the urgent need for robust AI security measures.
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Musk's plan to automate Washington is "cyber utopianism gone wild," Harvard expert says
In an exclusive interview, prominent American technologist Bruce Schneier tells Cybernews that Elon Musk’s plans to automate the US federal government and use AI to fix fraud are “total cyber utopianism.”
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Meta paid millions in bounties last year: white hatters still unhappy
Meta paid out more than $2.3 million in bounties under its whitehat program, encouraging researchers who hunt for bugs within the firm’s platforms and report them to the company. Still, some cybersecurity pros say they aren’t happy.
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Heartbroken this Valentine’s Day? Swipe right on AI
When you’re down in the dumps after exiting a relationship, what’s the best medicine? Well, a rebound, of course. If you can’t get a human, then reach out to AI.
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TikTok back on Apple and Google app stores
TikTok users in the US received a welcome surprise on Thursday evening as America’s favorite short-video platform returned to the Apple and Google app stores.
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Elon Musk denies knowledge of government’s $400 million ‘armored Teslas’ contract
The State Department has scrubbed the mention of “armored Teslas” from procurement documents, but still plans to spend almost half a billion dollars on the now unspecified “armored electric vehicles.”
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Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright case: new precedent or one-off?
A US court has ruled that using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not fair use. But its verdict doesn’t necessarily apply to generative AI, so the broader impact of the case is still unclear, experts say.
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Apple's app tracking tool could be violating rules, German watchdog warns
The German antitrust authority has notified Apple of concerns regarding the iPhone maker's app tracking tool, which could violate rules for large tech companies, the regulator said in a statement on Thursday.
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Musk's X agrees to pay roughly $10 million to settle Trump lawsuit
Elon Musk's social media platform X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that US President Donald Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Racist, transphobic hate speech surged on X under Elon Musk
Elon Musk was not telling the truth when he said that hate speech decreased after his takeover of Twitter, later renamed X, according to scientists who looked into the matter.
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EU drops tech patent, AI, privacy rules after big tech pressure
The European Commission has scrapped draft rules regulating technology patents, AI, and consumer privacy on messaging apps, saying it did not expect them to receive the green light from EU lawmakers and countries.
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How did a fake ODESZA album slip through to major streaming platforms?
Despite all the talk of major music streaming services being ready to repel the onslaught of fake music, it has happened again. Someone released an AI-generated album from ODESZA, a Seattle band, on its official artist profiles.
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