Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to authors whose books were pirated for training its AI. Now authors and publishers are filing competing claims, and many authors are learning they must share the money. Textbook authors, in particular, are discovering their share can be as low as 10%. The key question is who owned each title when Anthropic downloaded it, not who owns it today. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Attackers packed invisible Unicode characters into finance-themed spam to split the word 'funding' and confuse filters. Microsoft researchers say the campaign at its height sent millions of messages a day. More than 99% were caught by traditional defenses, and the hidden characters themselves became a red flag. The episode shows how red-team AI techniques can migrate into mass abuse. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum OpenAI published two posts on the same day: one shows agents now perform 3.1 days of work for every human day at its research lab, and the other argues that no lab is ready to scale that quickly. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki calls for shared safety bars and says monitoring is not advanced enough. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Software teams often struggle to combine speed with stability. Maxim Magaziner, a Staff Software Engineer at Taboola, shares how reducing uncertainty early, maintaining strong CI/CD pipelines, and using AI wisely can improve engineering velocity. This profile explores his career path, technical leadership approach, and lessons for sustainable development. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly attempted to influence California Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of the passage of SB 1119, a child safety bill that would place restrictions on chatbots and how they interact with minors. The measure passed the state legislature on Monday, and Newsom has not yet signed it. The bill is intended to require age estimation, parental controls, audits, and limits on targeted advertising to children. OpenAI has publicly voiced support for the legislation while declining to comment on reports of Altman's outreach. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum A federal judge declined to order Google to sell its ad tech business, despite finding the company ran an illegal monopoly. The court said unspecified changes would be imposed but did not break up the division. Advocates slammed the decision, arguing courts are failing to enforce antitrust laws against dominant platforms. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum This roundup covers the latest privacy and security stories, including court rulings on license plate readers, data breaches, AI-powered cyber threats, and new police surveillance tools. It tracks how governments and companies are handling personal data. These developments show a growing conflict between safety, convenience, and civil liberties. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The Big Guessing Game is about to close, and there is still time to submit your Apple predictions. One winner will receive a new Apple Watch for forecasting the biggest product reveals. Here is everything you need to know before the deadline. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum NVIDIA's DLSS 5 launches Sept. 3 with NBA 2K27, promising AI-driven cinematic lighting and character repainting in real time. But social media is split over whether those AI changes improve games or override the work of the artists who made them. This explainer breaks down what DLSS 5 is, why it became controversial, and what it costs in terms of performance and price. View more
Sep 06, 2026Twila Rosenbaum A viral Reddit thread claims Anthropic's Claude Max plans don't deliver the advertised 5x and 20x usage multipliers. Weekly caps may make the $200-per-month plan cost more per hour than the $100 plan. Anthropic has not publicly responded. View more
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