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Patreon is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI bots that scrape creators' content for AI training, moving beyond its earlier robots.txt requests after weekly scraping attempts by individual crawlers dropped from thousands to zero in testing.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie asked California regulators for tougher autonomous-vehicle rules, nearly two weeks after Waymo robotaxis ran out of power and blocked streets in July 4 traffic.
Two U.K. teenagers were sentenced to five years and six months in prison for a London transit hack costing around £29 million; police say it severely disrupted Scattered Spider.
A preliminary NTSB report confirms a Tesla driver overrode the vehicle's Full Self-Driving software by pressing the accelerator to 100% before a fatal Texas crash.
India unveiled a smartphone manufacturing scheme worth about $6.5 billion and a semiconductor push worth around $13.3 billion to pull supply chains away from China.
U.S. prosecutors charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts for allegedly running infrastructure that shielded ransomware attacks, netting some $62 million in proceeds.
OpenAI has rejected Apple's trade secret lawsuit as lacking merit, while Bloomberg reports the AI lab is developing a mobile, screen-free smart speaker.
A group of publishers and authors, including Hachette and Scott Turow, has filed a class action lawsuit accusing Google of training its Gemini AI models on their copyrighted works without permission.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has proposed an independent, industry-funded standards body to test and regulate frontier AI models in the US.
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging a former engineer exploited a rare authentication bug to steal confidential hardware files after joining the AI startup.
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging a systematic, executive-led effort to misappropriate trade secrets to build a competing hardware business.
A coalition of 12 US state attorneys general has sued to block Paramount's $110B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal violates federal antitrust law.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has cleared SpaceX to fly Starship again, with the next test flight scheduled as soon as this Thursday, July 16.
The Los Angeles Police Department is reportedly letting its contract with surveillance startup Flock Safety expire over serious civil liberties and privacy concerns.
Uber is lobbying against a proposed Washington, D.C. autonomous vehicle bill, putting it in direct opposition with its business partner Waymo.
The US cybersecurity agency CISA admitted it lacked a prepared response plan and had to build its incident playbook in real time during a May security breach.
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging the AI company stole trade secrets to build a rumored hardware device that would compete with the iPhone.
The EU warned Meta it must overhaul addictive design features on Facebook and Instagram or face potential fines of up to 6% of global turnover.
A U.S. court sentenced ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to extort American companies.
The New York Times and The Daily News have accused OpenAI of hiding evidence and deleting billions of ChatGPT outputs in their ongoing copyright lawsuit.