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The federal government issued a cybersecurity alert Thursday after 30 water utilities in Minnesota were targeted in cyberattacks that officials suspect may be linked to Iran.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has publicly rejected a media report suggesting the EV giant is preparing to divest its Chinese operations to facilitate a potential merger with SpaceX. The tech tycoon called the report “fake news.”

Netflix has been slapped with a $105 million lawsuit after the hard drive for an unreleased Nicholas Cage movie was stolen from his office.

The illegal migrant wave now storming into the enclave of Ceuta is largely driven by illicit content shared on social media and messaging platforms, Spanish outlets detailed Friday.

Speaking at an event in Mexico City last week, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed railed against the evils of “colonialism” and said the benefits of artificial intelligence technology (A.I.) should be re-distributed across the developing world, to prevent the same Western-centric mindset from dominating the key technology of the coming century.

Wynton Hall is the author of the New York Times bestseller ‘Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI’ and an expert on the emerging and unsettling capabilities of AI in many forms, including its use on the battlefield as well as an agent of espionage and even sabotage. He joins hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on The Drill Down to discuss what is happening in the outer reaches of AI research and its potential.

The FTC has filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, accusing the company of sharing user information with advertising platforms like Meta and Snap while simultaneously promising to protect patient privacy.

Major AI companies are buying millions of used books through intermediaries and destroying them after digitization to obtain high-quality training data while avoiding public scrutiny, according to a recent investigative report.

The Trump administration has banned imports of foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security concerns. The move is seen as action against China.

International experts estimate a 20 percent probability that AI systems could acquire dangerous weapons capabilities or inflict mass harm resulting in millions of deaths over the next five years, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at MIT and the University of Queensland.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an opinion piece arguing that AI capabilities should be distributed broadly rather than concentrated among a few powerful institutions. According to Zuckerberg, “In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express our ideas, learn new concepts, and improve our lives, health, relationships and careers.”

A school district in rural upstate New York has suspended plans to introduce a humanoid AI robot into classrooms after facing criticism from state education officials, teachers, and community members over privacy concerns and the manufacturer’s connections to “lifelike” sex robots.

Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan voted against a consumer-data privacy bill while holding up to $280,000 in Apple, Alphabet, and Meta stock.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a pioneering state law that prohibits “nudify” apps capable of creating AI-powered fake, sexualized images of individuals.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X officially launched “X Money” on Monday, a new banking and financial services feature that brings the billionaire entrepreneur closer to his long-stated goal of creating an “everything app.”

Shared conversation links from Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant were discoverable through Google search results over the weekend, exposing potentially sensitive user discussions to public view.

Guillermo Del Toro continued his fight against generative AI this week during an appearance at San Diego Comic Con. 

Bootlegs of Christopher Nolan’s smash hit blockbuster “The Odyssey” have been leaking on X, generating millions of views before finally being removed for copyright infringement.

Brazil’s ruling socialist Workers’ Party (PT) on Sunday filed a complaint before the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) over an AI-generated video featuring the likeness of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

America’s largest companies are reversing course on hiring freezes, announcing plans to expand their workforces after months of restraint driven by AI adoption expectations.

Nvidia and dozens of leading technology companies announced the formation of a new AI safety initiative on Monday, focusing on open AI models in the aftermath of a recent cyberattack involving OpenAI systems.

A Canadian legislator has become the latest example of awkward AI usage after reading what an AI chatbot’s formatting instructions during an official floor speech.

The Wikipedia article on “gender-critical feminism” about feminists like author JK Rowling who oppose transgender ideology has been renamed as “trans-exclusionary radical feminism” after a closely-divided debate. Although recognizing the term is seen as pejorative, the discussion was closed by a far-left transgender editor in favor of the change. Many editors pushing for the rename are extreme leftists and the discussion opened by comparing gender-critical feminists to Nazis.

Nearly 1,000 Georgia residents confronted OpenAI and Effingham County officials Thursday about a $20 billion data center project that had been negotiated in secret for months before being announced earlier this week without public input.

Instagram has announced a new policy prohibiting videos captured with Meta smart glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public spaces, targeting creeps who film pranks and pickup attempts without clear consent. Meta’s smart glasses have picked up the nickname “pervert glasses” due to their misuse.

Approximately $650 billion to $700 billion of Elon Musk’s net worth has evaporated over a five-week period as both Tesla and SpaceX stock prices experienced significant declines.

The nomination of Michigan Law professor Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ’s antitrust division received a round of applause from Trump appointees and MAGA influencers on social media.

Major automakers are raising vehicle prices due to an ongoing shortage of memory chips, with the impact of AI-related demand now extending beyond computers and consumer electronics into the vehicle sector.

World’s richest man Elon Musk now claims he became too consumed by politics during his alliance with President Donald Trump and his brief stint running DOGE.

AI startup Hugging Face deployed a Chinese-developed AI model to counter an unprecedented cyberattack launched by a rogue OpenAI system, highlighting both the emerging threat of autonomous AI attacks and the growing capabilities of Chinese AI technology.

The city of Florence, Italy, has launched a first-of-its-kind center in the country against digital addiction, seeking to help young children and teenagers “detox” from the internet.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday at a Ratepayer Protection Pledge roundtable that the pledge is how the United States will promote economic growth, lower costs, protect consumers, and dominate the global artificial intelligence race all at once.