On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers posed by advanced AI models. But, according to some cybersecurity experts, at the center of this unprecedented AI-driven breach was
Amazon must pay $1.5 billion to affected customers as part of its settlement with the FTC, and you have less than a week left to claim your share. The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon in 2023, accusing the company of enrolling customers in Amazon Prime without their knowledge or consent and making it difficult for
A day after Snap reached a tentative settlement with the plaintiff in a social media addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant, the case was dropped. In a statement, Meta said the plaintiff decided to drop his case against Meta without receiving any payment. TikTok and Google’s YouTube had previously reached settlement agreements
Imagine earning almost an extra $100 billion and dedicating exactly one vague sentence to it. That’s exactly what Google’s parent company, Alphabet, did in its second quarter earnings report. The tech giant reported that its “other income” amounted to $98 billion in the second quarter, saying it came from unrealized gains on its investments. Analysts
On Wednesday, IBM officially reported its earnings and the news was as bad as everyone knew it would be. While the 115-year-old company still generates large amounts of cash ($17.2 billion in revenue, $9.9 billion in gross profit, nearly 58% margins and $2.2 billion in net profit for the quarter), its results fell well short
Alphabet investors have publicly worried that the company’s huge AI spending isn’t worth it. With the company’s latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a bit. The bottom line: Google’s cloud business, driven largely by the adoption of enterprise AI, is booming. The search giant saw Google Cloud revenue increase 82% from
