US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content
The content of a vaccines information website owned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was swapped with gay-themed spam.
TikTok’s biggest star was detained by ICE, with help from another influencer
The situation grabbed headlines after a teenage influencer, Bo Loudon, boasted on X that he flagged Khaby Lame’s immigration status to authorities.
Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest
Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility.
Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging AI-related copyright infringement
The studios are seeking monetary damages, a jury trial, and an order barring Midjourney from further copyright infringement.
Atlassian rival Linear raises $82M at $1.25B valuation
Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian’s products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.
OpenAI claims to have hit $10B in annual revenue
OpenAI says it recently hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, up from around $5.5 billion last year.
AMD acqui-hires the employees behind Untether AI
AMD has acqui-hired the employees behind Untether AI.
Data breach at newspaper giant Lee Enterprises affects 40,000 people
The ransomware attack paralyzed newspaper printing and disrupted operations at media outlets across the country for weeks.
Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype…
Elon Musk’s xAI reportedly looks to raise $300M in tender offer
Billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is reportedly launching a $300 million share sale that values the company at $113 billion. The secondary stock offering, which comes after xAI acquired Musk’s social media platform, X,…