Thomas Barrabi
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Reddit, news outlets weigh cutting Google off as AI summaries kill traffic: report
USA Today, Politico, Reuters and The Economist are also reconsidering their ties to Google over its use of AI-generated “overviews” – which are placed at the top of search results...
Chinese AI firms that rip off US models could face sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns
As The Post has reported, AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have each raised alarms about China-based labs using unauthorized distillation – a technique where a more advanced model...
China-based Moonshot AI seeks $50B valuation — and could go public this year: report
The company – founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin – drew global attention with the launch of Kimi K3. The large-language model was trained on 2.8...
China’s Moonshot AI pauses subscriptions for powerful Kimi K3 model due to surging demand
The Beijing-based firm said Sunday it had experienced “unprecedented compute challenges” and would temporarily focus on ensuring it could serve its existing paid users. The large-language model was trained on...
Most American voters have favorable view of AI — despite media focus on controversies: poll
In a national poll conducted by HarrisX, 56% of voters said they had a favorable view about AI, while 36% had an unfavorable view. 72% of respondents agreed that AI...
Dem-backed ‘Project 2029’ wants a tech clampdown that looks like Europe’s — and risks war with Silicon Valley
The liberal backers of "Project 2029" want the next Democratic presidential candidates to pursue a major crackdown that includes a social media ban for kids under age 16, limits on...
Chinese AI firm Moonshot unveils powerful model with capabilities close to Anthropic, OpenAI
Dubbed Kimi K3, the large language model was trained on a massive 2.8 trillion parameters – the kernels of data that determine its responses to user questions, according to Moonshot....
Google’s AI search engine poses ‘unacceptable risks for kids’: bombshell report
Features of Google’s AI-powered search engine “create unacceptable risks for kids” – including failing to detect when they are showing signs of eating disorders or suicide, according to a bombshell...
IBM shares plunge 27% as AI spending boom hammers business: ‘Ugly moment for software stocks’
The company has been trying to reduce its reliance on the cyclical mainframe business by focusing on its software unit including its high-margin Red Hat business, which helps firms run...
How China is ripping off cutting-edge AI from Anthropic, OpenAI — and threatening US national security
Industry sources told The Post these distillation attacks are only getting more common and could help adversaries develop terrifying hacking or autonomous weapon capabilities – or even leapfrog ahead of...
EU warns Meta to change ‘addictive’ Facebook, Instagram features — or get big fines
European regulators told Meta on Friday to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram's "addictive" features -- or face steep fines.
Meta patents ‘creepy’ AI device that tracks wearer’s sighs and laughter, medication intake
The patent filing, which was filed on July 2, describes an “apparatus” for “emotional state analysis and real-time fitness coaching.”
Anthropic leases new NYC office building, set to double local workforce by end of year
Anthropic will begin moving into the office later this summer and has space in the facility for about 1,700 desks, according to the company. New York already ranked as Anthropic’s...
Meta says it’s facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case — a sum equal to tech giant’s valuation
Meta said it based the $1.4 trillion figure, which is nearly as large as the company’s entire market cap, on how the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky and New...
US-based ‘Amazon of South Korea’ forced to recover laptop from Chinese river in bizarre data privacy clampdown: report
A Coupang rep traveled to Shanghai on Dec. 17 to meet with the suspect and his lawyer, who handed over a desktop PC, four hard drives and copies, a graphics...
European Union escalating probe into Meta’s addictive features for kids: report
The European Commission, the EU’s competition watchdog, is close to issuing its preliminary findings – including that Facebook and Instagram are built with addictive features, Bloomberg reported, cited people familiar...
Google loses $270B in market cap over concerns its ‘falling behind’ rivals in race for AI talent
Google lost senior research scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper, who announced late Friday he was exiting DeepMind AI lab for a role at Anthropic. That news came just...
Cheap Chinese AI models are quickly gaining customers across the US market: ‘This changes things’
The Trump administration has been increasingly wary about China’s breakneck pace in AI development – with officials warning as recently as recently as April that China was engaged in “industrial-scale”...
Anthropic floats proposal to end US ban of powerful ‘Mythos,’ ‘Fable’ AI models: sources
Anthropic executives pledged to work more closely with the Trump administration in a proposal to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as they scramble to resolve the security concerns that triggered a...
Anthropic CEO urges G7 to ‘resist temptation to splinter’ on AI — as workers gripe Trump ‘bullied’ firm
The plea came during a lunch attended by President Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other tech leaders who gathered in Évian-les-Bains, France – just days after the Trump administration...