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Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI

Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI

Anthropic refuses to bow to the Pentagon despite threats, Block is laying off nearly half its workforce, and Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

Amazon introduces three personality styles for Alexa+

Anthropic weakened its safety pledge, Kalshi fined a MrBeast, and Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content

Google claims it's building data centers that barely use any water

xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI has been dismissed, the Pentagon giving Anthropic until Friday to let it use Claude as it sees fit, and Uber previewed its Dubai air taxi service

The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app

US military may use Grok AI in its classified systems, Anthropic accused 3 Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude, and Bungie said 'no second chances'

Apple's next event to bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz'

The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries, a Colorado bill would make it illegal to 3D print firearms and gun parts, and the recent 13-hour AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI tools

Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists

Google Play used AI to help block bad apps last year, Samsung's Bixby is more conversational, and 'Freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech

Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'

Is Meta planning to release a smartwatch this year?, Nevada is suing Kalshi, and Gemini can now generate a 30-second clip of what real music sounds like

WordPress adds an AI assistant

Texas AG is suing TP-Link, OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo', and Tesla stopped using 'Autopilot' to promote its EVs in California

Apple's next event is set for March 4th

EU launching a second investigation into Grok, the EC is probing Shein's addictive app design and illegal product sales, and Apple's Podcasts app now supports HTTP Live Streaming video technology

Airbnb is testing out AI search with a 'small percentage' of users

ByteDance will tighten up its new AI video generator, OpenAI hired the developer behind AI agent OpenClaw, and Terminator Zero has been canceled after just one season

Apple's Siri relaunch is reportedly behind schedule

Ring called off its partnership with Flock Safety, the person overseeing the Netflix-Warner merger resigned, and the EU opening another probe into Google's ads pricing

Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant feature is an AI hack for your grocery shopping

WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia, Anthropic beefed up Claude's free tier, and Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

Waymo's vehicles are now fully driverless in Nashville

Elon Musk's satellite catapult on the Moon, Discord will soon require age verification, and Meta, TikTok and Snap are participating in an online safety ratings system

Lyft rolls out teen accounts with enhanced safety protections

The DOJ may face an investigation for pressuring Apple and Google, SpaceX pivoting to focus on a moon base, and disabling Ring's creepy Search Party feature

DOJ is investigating if Netflix used anticompetitive tactics as part of its merger probe

NY lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for 3 yrs, Apple's new iPads and MacBooks may be here soon, and Lyft rolls out teen accounts with enhanced safety protections

NVIDIA reportedly won't release new graphics cards this year

X's Community Notes will allow AI to write the first draft, Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own, and the CIA will stop publishing The World Factbook

Anthropic says it won't bring ads to Claude

A new bill would crack down on fraudulent ads, X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, and Valve pushed back its Steam Machine launch

iPhone Fold rumors: Everything we know so far

An AI powered mobile app to integrate your family's health data, the next gen X-Box will arrive in 2027, and Apple just made Xcode better for vibe coding

Apple is already thinking about its second foldable iPhone

X's Paris HQ raided by French prosecutors, Firefox will soon offer a way to block all of its generative AI features, and a developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

NASA used Claude to plot a route for Perseverance on Mars, Apple now lets you build a new Mac exactly the way you want, and Indonesia lifted its ban on Grok

Honda vehicles used to proactively report road safety issues in nation-first pilot

Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from ... and more Tech News

Google brings its Nano Banana image generator to Chrome

Tesla killing off its Model S and X cars to make robots, Mark Zuckerberg says Reality Labs will (eventually) stop losing so much money, and Patreon creators have to switch to subscription billing by November

The French government is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a home-grown alternative

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, Snap spinning off its AR glasses, and LinkedIn will let you show off your vibe coding expertise

The EU is investigating Grok and X over potentially illegal deepfakes

Trump admin planning to use AI to write federal regs, people are uninstalling TikTok, and Google agreed to a settlement in voice assistant privacy lawsuit

NTSB will investigate why Waymo's robotaxis are illegally passing school buses

Is OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model citing Grokipedia? Apple to reveal its Gemini-powered Siri soon, and US Congress members are calling for a 'thorough review' of EA's $55 billion sale