Don’t be cantankerous. David Heinemeier Hansson has some advice for engineers as they adjust to AI. Often referred to as DHH, Hansson created the webapp framework Ruby on Rails and has fashioned himself into a software sage. On Monday, Hansson shared his prediction on X: “The age of agents is going to be amazing for
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit with the largest ever fine against it for its business practices. A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered the company to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) following a two week trial earlier this year that found it had spent years lying to the public about
Apple’s latest privacy crackdown left the online ad industry scrambling for answers. Now, the tech giant has finally offered some. Late on Monday, Apple published a blog post laying out its rationale for new restrictions that block technology used to identify and track consumers across websites. The changes are implemented through WebKit, the browser engine
West Virginia’s attorney general, John McCuskey, primarily alleges that OpenAI has misled consumers and created a public nuisance that endangers children. As a remedy, the state wants age checks, parental controls, default session and nighttime limits for children, mandatory crisis-escalation protocols, and an independent monitor. It also asks that OpenAI fund a court-supervised plan supporting
Google says it’s back on the AI frontier, and now everyone can put that claim to the test. The company announced on Tuesday that its new Gemini 4 model, dubbed “Argon,” is rolling out to the public and will be available to Gemini app users and developers. Google is positioning Argon as its new workhorse
After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered
