A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies…

Huawei’s US racketeering trial opens with prosecutors calling it a criminal enterprise
Huawei’s US racketeering trial opens with prosecutors calling it a criminal enterprise

The United States opened its criminal case against Huawei in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, with a prosecutor describing two decades of conduct by the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker as theft, lies and cover-up. “Theft, lies, cover-up. F…

The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal to avoid antitrust review
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal to avoid antitrust review

The US Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia deliberately structured its licensing deal with inference chip designer Groq in a way that avoided antitrust review, according to a New York Times report. The Justice Department opened its inquiry s…

India’s fraud office recommends a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s local business
India’s fraud office recommends a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s local business

India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office has recommended a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s business in the country, according to an internal document examining how money moved through the company’s Indian operations and whether it obtained the a…

Amazon accused of systematically denying pregnant warehouse workers chairs and breaks
Amazon accused of systematically denying pregnant warehouse workers chairs and breaks

Four former Amazon warehouse employees have filed a proposed nationwide class action accusing the company of routinely refusing pregnant workers the accommodations they are entitled to by law, and then disciplining them for the absences that followed. …

Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week
Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week

Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neum…

Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist
Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist

Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.ne…

Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China
Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China

Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a fligh…

OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says
OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says

OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters repor…

Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trad…