Over 110 million AT&T customers had their personal information stolen in two high-profile data breaches during 2019 and 2024. The cybersecurity incidents exposed sensitive data, prompting consumers to seek compensation through a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit (PDF) alleged that AT&T didn’t do enough to protect customer data or to promptly notify them of the data
Anthropic’s 318-page IPO prospectus, which the company made public today, makes one thing clear: Compute is existential to Anthropic’s business, and not securing enough of it is a significant risk factor. “Our ability to develop, train, improve, and deploy frontier models depends on our access to enormous and increasing quantities of specialized compute,” the company
Meta’s filings this week were dominated by its new class of non-voting stock, which would let Mark Zuckerberg raise cash, including enough to pay for a potential California wealth tax without giving up control of the company. Meta says it needs the new shares to fund its AI ambitions: Management’s forecasts “showed the Company’s need
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breached federal law by sharing sensitive government data with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a federal judge. In a 39-page ruling released on Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote said OPM violated the Privacy Act of 1974, a post-Watergate law which prohibits the disclosure of certain
If you had to estimate how much data your smart speaker was using over the course of a couple of weeks, would you guess three terabytes? That’s what one Google Home Speaker user discovered when he checked his home Wi-Fi’s usage, according to Reddit posts reported on by 9to5Google. The Google Gemini-powered smart speakers have
There’s a reason Americans have cited energy costs as one of the biggest issues on their minds during this year’s elections: A new survey by Consumer Reports found that, among Americans who’ve lived in the same home for more than three years, the vast majority are paying more for energy now than three years ago
