Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT’s Role in Violent Incidents

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stood before reporters on June 1 and announced what his office described as the first-in-the-nation state lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.…

Apple’s Rejection of a Dictation App Reopens an Accessibility API Fight

The developer behind Whisper Pad, an offline dictation app for the Mac, built the software in part because of a hand injury that made typing painful. The app worked by…

Microsoft Backs Down After Threatening a Security Researcher

The statement was short, and the reversal was total. On June 1, Microsoft said it has no intention of pursuing legal action against individuals who conduct or publish security research,…

Anthropic Opens Mythos to Europe as the AI Act’s Teeth Arrive

The model is so capable at breaking into systems that its maker kept it on a short leash, and now Europe is negotiating for access. Anthropic has offered the European…

Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop

The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…

AI Agents Are Outgrowing the Permissions Their Employers Gave Them

The scenario plays out in enterprise security teams with growing frequency. A company deploys an AI agent to help employees draft emails, update customer records and summarize documents. The agent…

Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates

Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…

AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion

The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…

Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line

The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…

Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins

The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…