Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules
Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules

The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told the outlet they view the administra…

OpenAI poaches Uber India’s chief to run its biggest market outside the United States
OpenAI poaches Uber India’s chief to run its biggest market outside the United States

OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, the outgoing president of Uber India and South Asia, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and report to Kiran Mani, the company’s managing director for Asia Pacific, OpenAI told Te…

Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking
Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking

Trustpilot has struck a partnership with Shopify that will let the platform’s merchants display and manage Trustpilot reviews directly inside their online stores. The integration goes live on June 29 and is the Danish review company’s first native tie-…

A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created
A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created

Two Asian AI companies launched products this week that position themselves as alternatives to Anthropic’s suspended Mythos and Fable 5 models. Tokyo-based Sakana AI released Fugu, an orchestration model it says matches Fable 5 on key benchmarks, while…

FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need
FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need

The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers who build optical transceivers for AI data centers. The FTC granted early termination of its antitrust review on…

US clears Anthropic to restore Mythos 5 to a small group of cyber defenders, but Fable 5 stays dark
US clears Anthropic to restore Mythos 5 to a small group of cyber defenders, but Fable 5 stays dark

The US government has cleared Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5, its most powerful cybersecurity model, for a select group of trusted partners. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a letter to Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown that the company…

Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong
Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters that the automaker mistakenly believed it cou…

OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government
OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model, to roughly 20 partners whose names were individually approved by the US government. The release is the first time an American AI company has launched a frontier model under a government-managed …

This Senior Member Solves Complex Product Lifecycle Challenges
This Senior Member Solves Complex Product Lifecycle Challenges

What do an instinct to fix things and the 1999 global panic over whether computers would survive the date change to 2000, known as the Y2K bug, have in common? Both helped shape IEEE Senior Member Ajay Prasad’s career.Prasad is an industry process dir…

A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer
A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it …