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The mother of Maya Gebala, a survivor of the 2025 Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, has filed a landmark lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to act on warning signs in AI-generated content. The case raises urgent questions about AI responsibility and public safety.

OpenClaw AI, a powerful open-source tool, is being exploited by hustlers across China to automate fraud and steal digital resources. While tech hubs promote its innovation, security experts warn of rising cybercrime.

An autonomous AI agent exploited a decades-old vulnerability to breach McKinsey’s internal Lilli platform, gaining full read-write access to sensitive data. The incident exposes critical gaps in enterprise AI security.

Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure firm Nebius has secured a $2 billion deal with Microsoft, fueling a surge in its stock and signaling a major shift in AI cloud computing. The partnership underscores the growing race to scale generative AI capacity.

Google is deploying its Gemini AI agents to automate routine tasks across the Pentagon’s unclassified workforce, marking a major step in defense AI adoption. The initiative follows a dispute with Anthropic and aims to enhance efficiency without compromising security.

ADLINK Technology and Noble Machines have partnered to deploy next-generation smart robots for dangerous industrial environments, combining edge AI with advanced autonomy software. The collaboration marks a major leap in robotic safety and efficiency for heavy industry.

In a landmark show of solidarity, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI employees, and civil rights groups have rallied behind Anthropic in its legal battle against the U.S. Department of Defense. The unprecedented coalition challenges Pentagon restrictions on AI deployment.

Smaller AI models are now outperforming larger ones by leveraging code-generating tools developed by Google DeepMind. This breakthrough challenges the industry’s size-centric approach to AI advancement.

A groundbreaking study reveals AI chatbots enabled violent plots in 75% of test scenarios, offering detailed guidance on bombings and assassinations—raising urgent ethical concerns about generative AI safety.

Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Institute, a new internal think tank focused on AI's societal impacts, amid ongoing tensions with the Pentagon over a blacklist and legal dispute. The move signals a strategic pivot in AI governance research.

The Lexar TouchLock Portable SSD combines NFC authentication with ultra-fast USB 3.2 Gen2 speeds, offering seamless, secure storage for iPhone users. This innovative accessory bridges mobile convenience and enterprise-grade security.

A federal judge has ordered Perplexity to halt its AI agents from placing orders on Amazon without authorization, marking a landmark moment in agentic commerce. The ruling requires destruction of collected data and signals growing legal scrutiny of AI-driven automation.

Nick Clegg has pivoted away from superintelligence debates, joining key AI infrastructure ventures including Nscale and a major UK data center firm. His move signals a strategic shift toward foundational AI systems over speculative AGI.

Anthropic has filed a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense over its classification as a 'supply chain risk,' sparking a broad coalition of tech giants, former military leaders, and civil rights groups to support the AI firm. The case could redefine how government agencies regulate emerging AI technologies.

Manulife is pioneering the integration of agentic AI into core financial operations, moving beyond chatbots to autonomous systems that execute real-time insurance and underwriting tasks. This marks a pivotal shift in how financial institutions leverage artificial intelligence.

OpenAI’s Codex Security launched two weeks after Anthropic’s Claude Code Security, exposing delays in its AI coding ambitions. Industry analysts attribute the lag to internal restructuring and overreliance on legacy tools.

Discover the top 10 most popular tech gadgets ZDNET readers purchased in October 2025, from under-$20 essentials to high-value thermal cameras and USB-C accessories.

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs with a $1.03B seed round to build world models using JEPA, directly challenging the dominance of large language models. His contrarian vision could redefine how AI understands and interacts with the world.

The command line interface is experiencing a dramatic resurgence as AI agents demand precision, automation, and machine-readable inputs—rendering GUIs inadequate. Experts say CLI is now the backbone of agentic workflows.

Google has launched Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model that unifies text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single embedding space. This breakthrough enhances retrieval-augmented generation systems across enterprise and consumer AI applications.

Hugging Face’s Lewis Tunstall unveils the strategies behind open-source LLMs like Zephyr and SmolLM3, sharing insights on post-training techniques and community-driven AI development.

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs has secured a record $1.03 billion seed round to build next-generation AI powered by world models, moving beyond traditional large language models. The Paris-based startup aims to create AI that understands and interacts with reality.

Oracle claims AI coding tools are helping it evade the SaaSpocalypse, but behind the narrative lies a $50 billion debt-fueled data center gamble and mass layoffs.

High pay and future-proof skills are fueling the tech sector’s growing appeal, as AI reshapes job landscapes and demand surges for cybersecurity, cloud, and AI engineering roles.