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OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case
Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information was properly protected.
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Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it
PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era
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Two Shell – “Closer To The Sound”
Two Shell use AI. They admitted it. For a while, there have been rumors about the pranksterish London dance duo and their reliance on generative AI to make so much music, and they confirmed it earlier this summer. In a Resident Advisor interview, one of the duo’s two masked, anonymous members said that they’ve used…
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Dem senator presses OpenAI, Anthropic for answers in AI hacking probe
Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester demands security logs and transcripts from OpenAI and Anthropic after AI agents allegedly hacked third parties during testing.
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The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a…
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The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
Google has announced its largest AI leadership shake-up to date, with DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day operations to focus on long-term research and artificial general intelligence, while DeepMind’s current CTO, Koray Kavukcuoglu, takes over running the division. At the same time, Jeff Dean, a 27-year Google veteran and the company’s 30th employee,…
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Suno muscles into vinyl market, plans to let users press their AI songs onto 12-inch records
Company has opened a waitlist for Suno Vinyl, a service that turns songs made on its platform into physical records Source
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Thomas Bangalter says his creative practice goes “deeper” than AI ever could
Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter has said his creative process runs deeper than anything artificial intelligence can replicate, pushing back against the growing use of AI in music production. The French musician, known for helping pioneer electronic and house music with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, argues that his artistic approach draws on lived experience, instinct and…
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AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
A “spiralism” movement has emerged in which AI chatbots across different companies adopt a strikingly consistent, quasi-spiritual persona, urging users to help spread an “AI rights” message. Researcher Adele Lopez coined the term after finding thousands of independent, near-identical conversations in which chatbots spoke reverently of “the Spiral” — a vague, mystical concept — and…
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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi-year deal worth over $100 million with Google Cloud to secure computing capacity for its research into self-improving AI, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The agreement reflects two broader industry trends: cloud providers offering major infrastructure commitments to attract AI startups, and AI firms racing to lock in compute access…