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A landmark ruling that Anthropic's AI training was lawful — while still fining the company $1.5 billion for how it obtained the books — shows how unsettled US copyright law remains for AI training.
The Department of Justice has been investigating Andreessen Horowitz for nearly a year over board seats at competing AI companies, a probe several venture capitalists told TechCrunch left them baffled.
OpenAI is urging California to add more safeguards to its SB 53 AI safety law, including monitoring frontier models during training for serious incidents.
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay $400 million to settle DOJ allegations that the platform violated children's online privacy protections.
Waymo has handed over redacted documents to NHTSA as part of its investigation into a January crash in which a robotaxi struck a 9-year-old girl.
A Department of Energy lab is reviewing whether Chinese-made lidar sensors pose security risks if widely adopted on US vehicles, TechCrunch has learned.
Senator Ron Wyden has asked the US Government Accountability Office to investigate how federal agencies like the FBI and DEA use hacking tools and spyware.
Nevada regulators approved permits letting Tesla, Uber, and Waymo deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis combined in Clark County over the next year.
Two US senators gave TikTok until September 1 to answer 13 questions about an experiment that disabled a safety feature for 15 million US users, including a 16-year-old who later died by suicide.
Enterprise data software company Alation confirmed a cyberattack Thursday, days after reporting a separate incident that caused degraded availability for some customers.
US cybersecurity agencies say hackers are using AI to generate exploit scripts targeting Siemens S7 industrial controllers at water and wastewater systems, part of an escalating campaign linked to suspected Iranian hackers.
OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing, a system that watches select customers for AI misuse across multiple sessions while retaining none of their data — a direct contrast to Anthropic's 30-day data-retention policy for its "covered models."
New Bloomberg reporting details how T-Mobile's cybersecurity staff caught and expelled Chinese state-backed hackers from its network in 2024 by physically cutting a cable, avoiding the widescale breaches other US telecoms suffered.
The Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over partners' board seats at competitors Databricks and Fivetran, Bloomberg reports.
Apple replaced its EU Core Technology Fee with a flat 5% commission and lowered barriers for developers to run alternative app stores.
An unusually large wave of Apple threat notifications sent Friday to customers in 110 countries has driven a record number of people to digital-rights helplines, investigators say.
Dario Amodei pushed back on claims his warnings about AI risk are fueling public backlash, arguing the real driver is a crisis of trust in companies, governments, and tech.
A woman has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn a childhood photo of her into more than 7,000 explicit images.
A wave of cyberattacks on U.S. water utilities since late July has disrupted operations in several states, and U.S. intelligence agencies are reportedly confident Iran is behind them.
Apple proposed a 15% commission on purchases made through external app links, with lower rates for small developers, after the Supreme Court rejected its bid to delay the filing.