A group of 33 state attorneys general on Tuesday sued Meta, alleging the Facebook and Instagram parent knowingly issued products and features via its apps that pose psychological risks to children and teen users.
Why it matters: The lawsuit is the latest in a slew of litigation against Big Tech companies that seek redress for perceived negative impact on children and teens' mental health.
Cruise is no longer allowed to operate fully autonomous vehicles in San Francisco after the state suspended two of its permits, citing safety rules.
Driving the news: The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment and driverless testing permits in the city, effective immediately, due to an "unreasonable risk to public safety," the department announced Tuesday.
Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a processor it says outpaces the fastest laptop chips from Apple and Intel, giving the company the opportunity to grab a far more significant share of the PC market.
Why it matters: The chip represents a major advance over the firm's prior efforts aimed at the PC market, which suffered from tepid performance and limited Windows compatibility.
The scope and scale of Okta's most recent breach is still coming together as new customers come forward to share details about how they were targeted.
Why it matters: Okta — which provides single sign-on and multifactor authentication tools — has taken a serious financial hit since it disclosed Friday that hackers had stolen some of its support case management system files.
ChatGPT is already pretty good at writing believable phishing emails, despite efforts to limit its ability to do harm, according to new IBM research.
Why it matters: Cybersecurity officials and industry leaders have long warned that hackers could weaponize ChatGPT and similar AI tools to quickly write phishing emails that the average person would think are authentic.
A damning assessment of 10 key AI foundation models in a new transparency index is stoking new pressure on AI developers to share more information about their products — and on legislators and regulators to require such disclosures.
Why it matters: The Stanford, MIT and Princeton researchers who created the index say that unless AI companies are more forthcoming about the inner workings, training data and impacts of their most advanced tools, users will never be able to fully understand the risks associated with AI, and experts will never be able to mitigate them.
Sam Lake didn't just write Alan Wake II, the new survival horror game from Remedy Entertainment. He's in it, playing FBI agent Alex Casey, a character who, in another twist, shares the same name — and maybe more — with a fictional detective featured in books written by in-game novelist Alan Wake.
Why it matters: It's all supposed to be a bit confusing in the latest game from Remedy. The studio has been building a following for decades in part by blending layers of reality.
The White House is launching new efforts to tout private sector investments in climate-friendly power generation — and make the information accessible at the project level.
Driving the news: Officials are today adding "clean" generation projects — like solar, wind and storage — to the Invest.gov site launched in June that maps various kinds of investments.
China will now limit how much battery metal it exports, potentially casting a cloud over the future of the globe's transition toward electric vehicles.
Amazon-backed Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude generative AI chatbot, is promoting a new form of responsible AI: A constitution for its large language models based on public input.
Why it matters: Who controls and influences AI is controversial given its potential to amplify existing biases and inequalities and to create new ones.
