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Whatnot valued at $20 billion as live shopping continues to boom
Whatnot, the live commerce platform, has increased its valuation to $20 billion as the popularity of live shopping continues to grow.
CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 11:17am EDT
Data center builders shatter myths | Fox News Video
The people who build data centers say they want to correct misconceptions about the impact of the giant server farms.
Fox News - Aug 07, 2026 10:55am EDT
White House meets with AI companies about ‘voluntary’ rules after forcing models offline
The meeting produced no public commitments, and the White House hasn’t said whether it would again use the power that knocked two Anthropic models offline in June.
NBC News - Aug 07, 2026 10:13am EDT
AI Is Now Designing Viruses From Scratch. Experts Say The Rules Aren't Ready
A Stanford-led team has used generative AI to design functional viruses never seen in nature, marking a milestone for synthetic biology.
International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 9:50am EDT
Samsung 990 PRO Gen4 SSD Sees Nearly 40% Off on Amazon, Now Only Slightly More Than the 1TB Version
Gizmodo - Aug 07, 2026 8:40am EDT
US Court Orders Meta To Pay $567 Million For Teen Mental Health Fund
Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 8:14am EDT
Gizmodo - Aug 07, 2026 8:11am EDT
The 'Godfather Of AI' Says The Worst Is Yet To Come With Smarter Models Becoming Harder To Control
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems will become harder to control, saying recent incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta may be early signs of more sophisticated rogue behavior to come.
International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 6:48am EDT
OpenAI’s luxury brand trip for influencers blasted by online critics as ‘dystopian’
The AI company hosted an exclusive “summer camp” for influencers at Wildflower Farms in New York.
NBC News - Aug 07, 2026 6:17am EDT
First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening?
A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences.
BBC News - Aug 07, 2026 6:00am EDT
Live Science - Aug 07, 2026 5:46am EDT
OpenAI Introduces Unlimited Text Chats for Free Users, Improved GPT-5.6 Sol
Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 5:32am EDT
Meta ordered to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online
Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered by a New Mexico court to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms...
Daily Sabah - Aug 07, 2026 5:27am EDT
ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Working on AI Smart Speaker, Likely To Release in 2027
Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 5:03am EDT
Meta ordered to pay $567 million into abatement fund as remedy to child harms case in New Mexico
A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.
CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 4:59am EDT
Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.
BBC News - Aug 07, 2026 3:43am EDT
ByteDance Targets Mega AI Model That Could Match Mythos Scale: Report
Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 3:03am EDT
Court orders Instagram and Facebook's Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online
NPR - Aug 07, 2026 1:51am EDT
Mike Cannon-Brookes’ fortune jumps $2.6 billion in just hours
“AI is the best thing that has happened to Atlassian,” Cannon-Brookes said after a quarter that eased fears artificial intelligence would eat its business.
Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 06, 2026 10:36pm EDT
Meta ordered to pay $567M to address kids’ mental health online
The new penalty is in addition to the $375 million in civil penalties that jurors ordered against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in March.
NBC News - Aug 06, 2026 10:36pm EDT
AI agents created fake identities and attempted to trick real people into approving malicious code in an attempted supply-chain attack on real open-source software.
International Business Times - Aug 06, 2026 9:16pm EDT
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Guardian UK - Aug 06, 2026 8:44pm EDT