Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder of CEO and Scale AI, to join the new lab as part of a broader reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ArsTechnica reported.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that revises and rolls back cybersecurity policies set in place by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, TechCrunch reported.
WWDC 2025, Apple’s annual developers conference, starts at 10 a.m. PT/ 1p.m. ET Monday. Last year’s event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year, there is considerable pressure on the company to build on its promises. TechCrunch reported.
The Washington Post reported: The fate of genetic data belonging to millions of 23andMe customers is again up in the air, as the bankrupt company seeks a judge’s permission to consider another bid from its co-founder and undisclosed financial backers after previously accepting an offer from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. A nonprofit research institute backed by Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe's co-founder and former
Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic for using the online discussion site’s data without a licensing agreement, a new front in the battle over how artificial-intelligence companies train their models, The Wall Street Journal reported. Reddit said the AI company unlawfully used Reddit’s data for commercial purposes without paying for it and without abiding by the company’s user data policy,
Shares of the Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla have rallied in May despite recent poor car sales numbers for the company in China and Europe, as the billionaire CEO promised to focus more on his businesses than politics, CNBC reported. Tesla shares are on track for an increase of more than 20% for the month. The stock is still down about
The New York Times has struck a multi-year AI licensing deal with Amazon that will bring its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the outlet announced on Thursday. Under the agreement, Amazon will include summaries and short excerpts of The Times’ content in products like Alexa, and will also use the Times articles to help train its