A significant downturn in profit is one of multiple disappointments in the Chinese technology company’s latest financial results. Alibaba’s net income fell 66% year-over-year (YOY) for 2025’s fourth quarter while it invested heavily in AI.
The U.S.’ top automotive safety regulator is notching up its investigation into the performance of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driving software in low-visibility conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) said on Thursday that it has upgraded the probe it launched in October 2024 to what’s known as an “engineering…
The suit seeks class status for anyone whose real images of them as minors were altered into sexual content by Grok.
The Information reported that an AI agent within Meta took unauthorized action that led to an employee creating a security breach at the social company last week. According to the publication, an employee used an in-house agentic AI to analyze a query from a second employee on an internal forum. The AI agent posted a…
A bipartisan duo is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s attempts to end a program that lets hundreds of thousands of foreign students work in the US for a year after graduation. Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA) introduced a bill that would codify Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows international students to…
Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those of U.S. AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic, but at around a seventh or sixth the cost when accessed over proprietary API — and importantly, sending less than 256,000…
In a recent hearing, the National Labor Relations Board argued that software company Atlassian illegally fired an employee for criticizing the CEO. A new case in front of labor regulators could answer a question many workers might have contemplated. Can your employer fire you for speaking out against the CEO?
An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it. Per an incident report, which was viewed and reported on by The Information, a Meta employee posted on an internal forum asking for help with a technical question — which is a…
Dell’s annual report showed it spent US$569 million in severance payments in fiscal 2026.
During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals’ movement and location. “We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us,”…
