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Suisun City shut down its entire IT network after malicious software hit 911 routing, police and fire dispatch, and city records on August 7, becoming the latest small municipality to be knocked offline by attackers who see local governments as easy targets.
The TikTok parent is training an AI model three times the size of China's current largest — and comparable to Anthropic's Mythos 5 — even as its CEO privately acknowledged the company's LLMs are falling behind.
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW natural gas plant in West Texas authorized to emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — potentially more than any other single facility in the US — to power its first off-grid AI data center campus.
Two separate security disclosures show Rovo can be tricked via hidden text in uploaded files or a single malicious link into silently exfiltrating sensitive Jira, Confluence, and third-party integration data to attacker-controlled servers.
The audience-measurement giant is buying one of digital advertising's largest fraud-detection and brand-safety platforms in an all-cash deal, pairing reach measurement with ad quality verification under one roof.
A new oversight system lets federal evaluators review frontier AI models for up to 30 days before public release, but key technical standards will stay private, shared only with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
The chipmaker is taking a roughly 20% stake in the Texas energy infrastructure company powering its Stargate AI supercomputer, underscoring that grid capacity — not GPU supply — is now the biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure buildout.
Unlimited Technology Systems disclosed that hackers accessed Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, and insurance details for over 3.8 million patients during an October 2025 intrusion that took nearly a year to surface publicly.
The Claude maker is recruiting semiconductor engineers for a custom silicon team, with Samsung reportedly in talks as manufacturing partner, as demand for Claude strains its multi-provider compute strategy.
A judge added $567 million to March's $375 million jury award, ruling that Meta's platforms constitute a public nuisance that harms children and spills beyond the app into the real world.
The two Musk companies are building their own semiconductor supply chain, citing combined chip demand of more than 1 terawatt of compute — far beyond what the world currently produces.
Apple's best-selling laptop is now caught in the same AI-driven memory squeeze that has already hit budget hardware, with online orders slipping to a 2-6 week wait and higher-RAM configurations delayed even longer.