An ACLU report claims police are increasingly using AI to analyze license plate-reader data and flag motorists based on travel patterns, raising concerns that innocent drivers could be pulled over because an algorithm deemed their movements suspicious.
Now the biggest VC firm in Texas, Disruptive—run by late oil & gas billionaire Marvin Davis’ grandson Alex—wants to double down on late-stage investments in defense and AI.
Bitdefender has launched GravityZone Exposure Management, which combines vulnerability discovery, internet-facing asset scanning, attack-path mapping and per-user hardening. It is available now on Windows, as an add-on or standalone. Bitdefender did no…
Sandisk, Micron, Seagate and Western Digital were among the top stocks of early 2026 but have dropped to the S&P 500’s bottom 10% since July, Bloomberg reported. Western Digital fell even after beating forecasts. Investors doubt how long debt-funde…
A London robotics startup co-founded by a robotics professor and his student, which is building an AI model which claims to have discovered a new, quick way of teaching robots physical jobs, has raise…
Opera’s WebAI preview lets websites and extensions use AI models running locally on supported computers, avoiding cloud processing and separate subscriptions while leaving access under the user’s control through site-specific permissions.
DeepSeek’s newest AI model is safer than its earlier versions, but it still sometimes switches off the software meant to shut it down. That is the finding of independent tests by a Chinese AI-safety group, Reuters reported. The group, Fangcun AI, publi…
BNY has built tools to track how it spends AI tokens and to route tasks to the most suitable models, CFO Dermot McDonogh told Bloomberg Television. The bank runs about 400 AI agents and spends $4B a year on technology. Banks are under pressure as AI bi…
Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly claimed that a web crawler, attributed to Roblox, downloaded 145.5GB of its data, for what it assumes is for AI training purposes.
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves, what happened during the previous shift, and when an apparently minor…