AI Surveillance in School Bathrooms? It’s Already Happening
A new report details how schools are spending millions on AI surveillance, including audio sensors in bathrooms. But false alarms and a lack of evidence on safety have critics worried.
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Chinese AI Chip Firm Axera Aims for $379M Hong Kong IPO
According to Reuters, Chinese AI chipmaker Axera Semiconductor filed on January 30 to raise HK$2.96 billion, or about $379.2 million, through an initial public offering…
L3Harris Wins Navy Deal for Marine Corps’ Red Wolf Missile
According to Reuters, defense contractor L3Harris Technologies announced on Friday, January 30, that it secured a U.S. Navy deal to develop its Red Wolf vehicles…
Apex Legends Drops the OG Switch, But Switch 2 Lives On
According to GameSpot, developer Respawn Entertainment announced it is shutting down the servers for Apex Legends on the Nintendo Switch. The upcoming Season 29 will…
CZ Pushes Back on Blame for Historic Crypto Market Crash
According to Bloomberg Business, Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has publicly rejected claims that his exchange caused the historic crypto market crash on October 10,…
Michigan Wants Its Money Back From Chinese Battery Maker
According to Reuters, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sent a letter on Friday demanding Chinese battery company Gotion Inc. return $23.7 million in state funds.…
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Deezer’s AI Music Detector Gets Its First Big Client
According to Reuters, music streaming service Deezer has licensed its AI-detection technology to France's royalty agency, Sacem, in what it calls a landmark commercial deal.…
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EU Probes Elon Musk’s Grok Over Deepfake Image Scandal
According to Fast Company, the European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X platform on Monday, December 18th.…
Signet’s New Tech Boss Aims To Modernize Kay, Zales, And Jared
According to Forbes, Signet Jewelers—the world's largest diamond jewelry retailer with brands like Kay, Zales, and Jared—has combined its digital…
AI Agents Have a “Hard Ceiling,” New Paper Argues
According to Futurism, a recent paper by former SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and his son Varin Sikka makes a bold…
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Intel GPU Firmware Now Updatable From ARM Systems, Too
According to Phoronix, a new set of patches submitted to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem now allows the firmware for Intel's discrete…
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Microsoft’s AI Bet is Huge, But Is It Paying Off Yet?
According to TechSpot, Microsoft's Q3 revenue hit $81.3 billion, a 17% jump, with net income up 21% to $38.3 billion. Its cloud business crossed a…
An AI SRE is now a billion-dollar idea
A startup founded by ex-Splunk execs to automate system maintenance has raised a Series A at a headline $1 billion valuation. But the deal’s structure reveals the complex reality of funding today’s hottest AI companies.
FTX Execs Get Banned, But The Real Punishment Was Already Served
The SEC has secured final judgments against three key FTX lieutenants, barring them from corporate leadership for up to a decade. This formalizes penalties that follow their earlier cooperation in the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried.
Trump’s $6B Fusion Deal Sparks Skepticism in Tech Rival’s Backyard
A planned $6 billion merger between Trump Media and California’s TAE Technologies aims to build the world’s first utility-scale fusion plant next year. The deal, which sent Trump Media’s stock soaring nearly 50%, is drawing sharp skepticism from rival fusion companies based in the Pacific Northwest.
Valorant’s New Anti-Cheat Rule: Update Your BIOS or Get Locked Out
Riot Games is implementing a new BIOS update requirement for some Valorant players to patch a serious UEFI vulnerability. The move targets high-level competitive play but could signal a tougher future for anti-cheat measures on older hardware. Players on affected ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI mothe
The Government Is Now a Venture Capitalist. That’s Probably Not Going Away.
According to Fast Company, the U.S. government took equity stakes in several private companies in 2025 and is likely to continue doing so through 2026. This strategy aims to secure supply chains and reduce reliance on China, but it also puts politicians in the venture capital business.
Google’s AI Hiring Secret: A 20% Boomerang Rate
A new report reveals a surprising trend in Google’s AI hiring. One in five new AI software engineers hired in 2025 were former employees returning to the company.
WatchGuard’s Critical VPN Flaw Is a Patching Nightmare
WatchGuard has released fixes for a critical zero-day vulnerability that allows remote takeover of its Firebox firewalls. However, simply patching may not be enough, and thousands of devices likely remain vulnerable from a similar flaw patched last year.