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A Metro Bank customer is seeking the return of over £14,000 after fraudsters used his card details to purchase credits for the AI chatbot Claude. Despite the bank identifying an initial suspicious transaction, a series of subsequent payments were processed before the card was fully blocked.
Tech Industry
OpenAI has publicly responded to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling it "careless, aggressive and oddly personal." The AI company denies wrongdoing and claims Apple's initial outreach was mishandled, involving emails sent to the wrong person.
Tech Industry
A United States company has supplied artificial intelligence capabilities to 50,000 Ukrainian drones as part of a $100 million agreement. This integration aims to enable the drones to autonomously track targets, enhancing their effectiveness in combat operations.
Tech Industry
Apple has escalated its legal action against OpenAI, seeking a preliminary injunction and alleging that more former employees may have taken confidential data to aid OpenAI's hardware development. OpenAI has strongly refuted these claims, publishing internal communications it says demonstrate its innocence and criticizing Apple's lawsuit as aggressive and personal.
Tech Industry
OpenAI has publicly responded to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, releasing private iMessage and email exchanges to dispute Apple's claims. The AI company described Apple's legal action as "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal."
Tech Industry
An artificial intelligence system designed to supervise a remote examination failed, prompting the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to order 58,000 students to retake their tests. The decision follows an investigation into unusually high scores that raised concerns about academic integrity.
Tech Industry
Google has removed an AI image generation feature from Google Earth just one day after its launch. The tool, powered by the Nano Banana 2 AI model, faced criticism for its potential to create misinformation and policy-violating imagery.
Tech Industry
U.S. authorities are investigating cyberattacks that disrupted water systems in at least seven states, with preliminary findings suggesting a link to Iran. The FBI and other agencies are examining the incidents, which affected critical infrastructure and at times forced manual operations at water utilities.
Tech Industry
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT surged 466% on its Shanghai stock market debut, becoming China's most valuable listed company. The company's IPO and reports of domestic lithography tool development signal a growing challenge to Western dominance in the semiconductor industry.
Tech Industry
Recent advancements in China's AI, robotics, and chip manufacturing have unsettled global markets and created rifts within the US tech industry. The US government is responding with new regulations, including a ban on Chinese humanoid robots, amidst growing competition.
3 connections in the Atlas · part of: Kimi becomes a geopolitical problem
Tech Industry
A federal judge has denied xAI's request for a temporary restraining order against Minnesota's new law banning "nudification" apps. The ruling allows the state's ban on technology that creates fake nude images to take effect as scheduled.
2 connections in the Atlas · part of: AI image harms reach constitutional law
Tech Industry
A coalition of major and independent record labels has proposed new guidelines to determine the eligibility of AI-generated music for official charts. The framework aims to distinguish human-led creativity from synthetic works and prevent chart manipulation.
3 connections in the Atlas · part of: Copyright pressure enters the product
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