Meta Rolls Out Muse Image Generator as Users Question Training Data
Meta’s newest image generator arrived with a splash and a question mark. The company launched Muse Image this week, an AI tool woven into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp that…
U.S. Clears OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 After Two-Day Policy Reversal
OpenAI got its model back. The company’s latest flagship, GPT-5.6, released in late June and then held up by a U.S. government security review, has been approved for public rollout,…
Blue Origin Raises $10 Billion in First Outside Funding at $130 Billion Valuation
The New York Times reported the numbers first, and the reaction inside the space industry was immediate: after 26 years of being bankrolled by a single billionaire, Blue Origin is…
OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Departs After Nine Years
Joshua Achiam posted the news himself, the way he has handled most things at OpenAI: directly, on social media, with no drama attached. The company’s chief futurist said he would…
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IBM Bets Air-Cooled Mainframes Can Save the Data Center IBM introduced a new generation of mainframes on Monday, the z17 and the LinuxONE systems, built around an air-cooled design that…
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Anthropic Under Fire After Researchers Find Hidden Tracker in Claude Code A routine security audit has turned into a reputational problem for Anthropic. Researchers said they found a hidden tracking…
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Regulators Order SpaceX’s Colossus Data Center Shut Down The order came down from regulators, and the market reacted in minutes. SpaceX’s Colossus data center has been hit with a shutdown…
Amazon Freezes New Registrations on Mechanical Turk, the Crowdsourcing Pioneer
SEATTLE — The marketplace where humans once performed tasks that computers could not is closing its doors to new customers. Amazon said it will no longer accept new registrations on…
SpaceX Joins Nasdaq-100, Bringing Billions in Index Demand
The exchange-traded funds that track the Nasdaq-100 are about to become involuntary shareholders in the world’s most valuable rocket company. SpaceX will be added to the index on July 7,…
Thales Strikes €3.9 Billion Deal for Exail, Outbidding Safran
PARIS — The Gorgé family has run Exail Technologies for decades, first as a maker of maritime robotics and navigation gear, and more recently as the parent of two French…
