Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking AI Project After Internal Data Leak
MENLO PARK — Meta has suspended an internal artificial-intelligence project that monitored employees’ mouse clicks and behavior to measure productivity, after a data leak inside the company raised privacy concerns,…
Five Eyes Agencies Warn AI Could Breach Cyber Defenses Within Months
WASHINGTON — The intelligence agencies of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued a rare joint statement Tuesday warning that a new generation of artificial-intelligence models could…
OpenAI Launches ‘Patch the Planet’ to Hunt Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software
SAN FRANCISCO — The name comes from a line in a 1995 movie: “Hack the Planet,” shouted by a teenage hacker in the film of the same name. OpenAI’s version…
U.N. Chief Demands AI Companies Disclose Data Center Environmental Costs
LONDON — The secretary-general of the United Nations used the stage of London Climate Action Week to put a new item on the agenda: the environmental cost of artificial intelligence.…
Qualcomm in Advanced Talks to Buy AI Chip Startup Modular for About $4 Billion
SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular, an artificial intelligence chip startup whose software lets developers build and deploy AI models without learning the low-level details…
Microsoft Confirms Copilot Will Auto-Install on Windows PCs Running Office
REDMOND — Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot AI assistant will be automatically installed on Windows computers that run Microsoft 365 desktop applications, a move that has drawn complaints from…
SK Hynix Reallocates Capacity From HBM4 to Commodity DRAM as Shortage Bites
SEOUL — SK Hynix, the world’s largest maker of high-bandwidth memory, is adjusting the pace of its sixth-generation HBM4 mass production and shifting resources to commodity DRAM, the company said,…
Tata Electronics Confirms Cyberattack After 630GB of Apple and Tesla Data Leaks Online
MUMBAI — The ransomware group WorldLeaks has published more than 200,000 files it says were stolen from Tata Electronics, including component designs, specifications and commercial secrets belonging to the Indian…
OpenAI Teams With Trail of Bits to Fix Open-Source Software, Starting With the Code That Runs the Internet
SAN FRANCISCO — The program’s name borrows from a line in the 1995 film “Hackers,” in which a teenager declares an ambition to “hack the planet.” OpenAI’s version, called Patch…
Goldman Says AI Capex Boom Is Bigger and Longer Than Expected for Korea’s Chip Cycle
SEOUL — Goldman Sachs has told clients that the artificial-intelligence capital expenditure boom is driving South Korea’s chip cycle harder and longer than the bank expected, and that the resulting…
