An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABC’s national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Rhiannon Hobbins broke the sto…
The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen t…
China has trained its regulators on one of America’s biggest security companies. Authorities have launched a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks, a move that deepens an already tense standoff. The review is a powerful instrument. In China, thi…
OpenAI is not interested in a quiet settlement with Apple. The company has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit outright, in a filing that turns the accusation back on its accuser. The case has been building for weeks. Apple s…
In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the sa…
X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The company is no…
Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tech engineers. The sweep was substantial. Between mid-Ju…
An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on people’s behalf. The…
Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer’s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes somethi…
The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit. On the same day, Apple escalate…