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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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Apple Says It Found No Trace of OpenAI's Files on Its Returning Engineer
Apple's new court filing says OpenAI raised its file-theft claim without notice, that Apple's search turned up nothing, and that OpenAI went to the judge instead of answering Apple's follow-up questions.
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Citizen Lab Says Spyware Makers Are Hacking Targets Through Online Ads
A new Citizen Lab report ties Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech to zero-click spyware makers Candiru and Bindecy, including an attack on at least 45 Al Jazeera computers.
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X Removes 13,000 Accounts Tied to Foreign Influence Ops Before the Midterms
X linked three networks to Iran, Russia, and China, though it hasn't shared public evidence for the attribution.
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40 Attorneys General Want Protections on Character.AI's Chat Logs Before Any Sale
A day after Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20 million for a license to its tech, a bipartisan group of 40 attorneys general told the court any buyer has to protect kids and users' private chats.
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Anthropic Asks Appeals Court to Rehear Its Pentagon Blacklisting Case
Anthropic filed a petition asking the D.C. Circuit to rehear its challenge to the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" label, which a divided panel upheld in September.
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Eight States Sue OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Isn't Safe for Kids
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each filed suit, accusing OpenAI of misleading the public about ChatGPT's safety and collecting data from minors.
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GlobalFoundries Selected to Operate Two New Fabs in New York With Up to $21B From Japan
Japan will fund up to $21 billion for two new 300mm fabs at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York site, with GF as technology provider and operator under a U.S.–Japan deal.
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OpenAI Agrees Not to Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets While the Suit Plays Out
After a San Jose judge said he was highly likely to grant Apple a preliminary injunction, OpenAI volunteered not to use the secrets Apple says were stolen and to image 14 employees' devices.
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OpenAI Says an Employee Who Went Back to Apple Took Over 100 Files on Its Unreleased Device
In a court filing in Apple's trade secrets suit, OpenAI says a worker who came from Apple and returned after six months sent device images, supplier data, and engineering files to personal accounts.
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Apple Asks Judge to Toss $5.7B Taction Verdict, Calling Damages "Guesswork"
In a post-trial motion, Apple says Taction never showed the jury what its haptics patents were worth, so the record $5.7 billion award was a guess.
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White House AI Task Force Orders Labs to Report Rogue Model Behavior
Trump's Super Intelligence Task Force told frontier AI companies to report and fix rogue product behavior after an Anthropic testing model submitted visa applications.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Refrigerators at Hundreds of French Supermarkets
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering forced defrost cycles that spoiled food.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says AI Needs Urgent Global Regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC that AI needs urgent global regulation — "right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI."