Snap is the latest major technology company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company reached a “tentative” settlement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its side of the case with the plaintiff, known by
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is changing the way companies protect employee devices. The Palo Alto-based startup said Wednesday it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from
For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help companies create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost typically associated with developing corporate educational materials. The startup’s newest product is making a different bet: that the real moat of enterprise AI is not just generating content, but proving that it
Meta is adding parental supervision tools to Threads, the company announced Tuesday. With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view the time their teens spend in Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings through Family Center, Meta’s hub for parental controls across all of its
Tesla has brought an unspecified number of its unattended Model Y SUVs to Orlando and Tampa, just one day before the company’s scheduled second-quarter earnings call. This is the third Florida city where Tesla is testing its fledgling robotaxi service, following a small launch in Miami a few weeks ago. The two new cities appear
