Meta, fighting accusations of hurting kids, is dealt major blow over key witness
A federal judge dealt a blow to Meta just days before a blockbuster trial where the company is accused of developing products that are addictive to children.
Hollywood strikes first AI copyright truce with ByteDance
The Motion Picture Assn. said it reached an agreement with ByteDance over its AI tools.
OpenAI introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as AI safety concerns mount
The San Francisco tech company has faced lawsuits that allege ChatGPT is harming young people. OpenAI said its product for teens will have more safety protections.
‘The young ones are the best ones’: Meta on trial for alleged effort to hook kids
A trial got underway Tuesday in California’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta, a case that experts say could have major implications for how social media companies operate and target young users.
‘Brazen act of self-dealing’: Democrats seek to block a Trump-linked crypto bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted conditional approval for the Trump family’s World Liberty Trust Co. to become a bank handling cryptocurrency and digital assets.
San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest tech talent market
The size of New York’s tech talent workforce surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time as tech companies lay off workers, a new report from CBRE shows.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks
Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will…
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to…
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data…
Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks
As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a…