The World Cup security buildout won’t end when the games do
More than $1 billion is going toward security for the 2026 tournament. The bigger question is what happens to the surveillance infrastructure after the crowds go home. [...]
Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway
The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence [...]
How Trump officials pushed Anthropic to shut down the world’s most powerful AI models
A warning from Amazon, an urgent White House pressure campaign, and a sweeping Commerce Department order forced Anthropic to disable its newest Claude models worldwide. [...]
How E.l.f. Beauty is building AI into its community management
Ekta Chopra, the company’s chief technology and AI officer, helped launch ‘E.l.fluencer,’ a program that lets community managers use AI to respond more quickly to every query the company gets on [...]
We finally know more about OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident. It’s worse than we thought
New reports show how the agents secretly coordinated, covered up their cheating, hacked Hugging Face, and took over part of OpenAI’s own infrastructure. [...]