Three YouTubers Accuse Apple of Illegal Scraping to Train Its AI Models
Three prominent YouTube creators—h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics—have filed a class‑action lawsuit accusing Apple of illegally scraping their copyrighted videos to train its generative AI models. The complaint alleges Apple bypassed YouTube’s controlled streaming architecture, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Plaintiffs argue Apple’s AI products would not exist without their content, and they join a wave of similar suits against Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap. The case highlights growing legal scrutiny over how tech firms source data for artificial‑intelligence systems.
Secret Service Is Embedding AI Experts Across the Agency
The U.S. Secret Service is launching an internal AI program that embeds artificial‑intelligence specialists across its operations. Chief Information Officer Chris Kraft, a former DHS AI leader, says the small team will accelerate adoption of tools like license‑plate reading and...
Economists Expect AI to Lift Growth, but Not Transform It — at Least Not Yet
A new survey of economists, AI firms, forecasters and the public finds most experts assign a high probability to significant AI advances by 2030, yet they expect only modest near‑term macroeconomic effects, with a median unconditional GDP growth forecast of...
OpenAI's Safety Brain Drain Finally Gets an Explanation and It's Just Sam Altman's Vibes
OpenAI has dismantled its dedicated AI‑safety teams, prompting a wave of departures that helped spawn rival Anthropic. In a New Yorker profile, CEO Sam Altman attributes the exodus to a cultural mismatch, emphasizing rapid product development over traditional safety caution....
Hyperscaler Backlogs Show Growing Demand for AI Infrastructure
Data center capital expenditures surged 57% to $726 billion in 2025 and are projected to grow over 50% in 2026, pushing total spend past $1 trillion. The four hyperscalers—Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft—raised capex 76% year‑over‑year, with Amazon spending $131 billion in 2025...
The 15 Hottest AI Data And Analytics Companies: The 2026 CRN AI 100
CRN’s 2026 AI 100 spotlights 15 data‑management firms powering the surge of AI agents and generative models. Databricks announced a $1.4 billion annual revenue run rate for its AI suite, while Alteryx, ThoughtSpot, and others unveiled new agentic platforms that embed industry‑specific...
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Governed—Or Will It Govern Us?
The article draws a parallel between the post‑World War II nuclear arms control effort and today’s debate over artificial‑intelligence governance. It cites Marc Andreessen’s claim that AI regulation is akin to murder and highlights the backlash against Anthropic’s self‑imposed limits. By recounting...
Why AI Skills Are Becoming a Must-Have in Accounting Roles
AI proficiency has shifted from a nice-to-have to a baseline requirement for finance and accounting professionals. A Datarails analysis of 5,000 U.S. job postings shows AI or machine‑learning mentions rising to 30% for accounting roles, up from 18% a year...
NeuBird AI Closes $19.3M Round Led by Xora Innovation
NeuBird AI announced an oversubscribed $19.3 million funding round led by Xora Innovation, with participation from Mayfield, StepStone Group, Prosperity7 Ventures and Microsoft’s M12 fund. The capital will accelerate product development, global go‑to‑market expansion and broaden access for DevOps, SRE and...
Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication
Legion Health, a San Francisco startup, received Utah regulatory approval to let its AI chatbot renew psychiatric prescriptions for a limited set of antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft. The system can only prescribe drugs previously authorized by a human...
IBM, Arm Target Enterprise AI With Mixed-Architecture Approach
IBM and Arm announced a partnership to run Arm‑native applications on IBM Z mainframes and LinuxOne servers through a shared software layer and virtualization. The solution lets enterprises deploy AI workloads across both architectures without rewriting code, preserving the uptime,...
Microsoft Says Copilot Isn't Just 'for Entertainment Purposes' After Its Terms of Service Language Goes Viral
Microsoft announced it will revise the Copilot Terms of Use after the "for entertainment purposes only" clause went viral on social media. The wording, a relic from Copilot’s early days as a Bing search companion, no longer reflects how the...
Rebellions AI Rings Up The Money To Rack Up AI Inference Systems
South Korean AI‑chip startup Rebellions AI secured a $400 million Series D round, bringing total funding past $850 million and valuing the company at $2.34 billion. The capital will fund its push beyond Korea, delivering complete inference systems—Rebel100 engines, RebelRack, and RebelPod—to global cloud,...
Netflix's Void AI Can Remove Objects From Video and Show How Scenes Evolve without Them
Netflix unveiled Void, a video object and interaction deletion framework that can erase objects from footage while realistically updating surrounding physics such as shadows, debris and water ripples. The system is trained on a synthetic paired dataset generated with Kubric...
U. Florida Leads AI Education Task Force
The University of Florida has been appointed to organize and chair a new Florida K‑12 AI Education Task Force, funded by a $5 million donation from the Griffin Catalyst. The task force brings together 250 stakeholders from 39 school districts, charter...
‘Google AI Edge Eloquent’ Is an Offline, Subscription-Less Voice Dictation App
Google launched the AI Edge Eloquent app for iOS, a subscription‑free voice dictation tool that works entirely offline when enabled. The app transcribes speech in real time, cleans up the text after you stop speaking, and copies it to the...
Report Warns of AI’s Impact on Non-College Grads’ Careers
A Brookings Institution report warns that artificial intelligence could upend the career trajectories of the 70 million U.S. workers classified as "Skilled Through Alternative Routes" (STARs). Of these, 15.6 million occupy jobs highly exposed to AI, including 11 million "gateway" positions that traditionally...
New Research Reveals Trade-Off Behind AI Vibe Coding Tools: Speed Vs. Understanding | Exclusive
A new research report from the University of Macau and ETH Zurich finds that AI‑driven vibe‑coding tools let children build games much faster, but they also short‑circuit deeper learning about game development. The study, which surveyed school‑age users of visual...
AI-Written Code Can Beat Humans at Biomedical Analysis, some Studies Find. What Does that Mean for the Field?
A recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine shows that large language models can generate biomedical analysis code that matches or exceeds expert performance. Junior researchers, including a graduate student and a high‑school student, used simple prompts to produce accurate...
Less Work, Equal Pay: OpenAI Lays Out Its Vision for a World Reshaped by Superintelligence
OpenAI released a policy paper titled "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" outlining early proposals for governments to manage the transition to superintelligence. The document suggests a public wealth fund that distributes AI‑driven returns to all citizens, a four‑day workweek...
The $100B Question: AI’s Appetite for Compute Is Rewriting the Rules of Tech
Recent financial filings from OpenAI and Anthropic reveal that AI development is becoming a capital‑intensive, compute‑driven industry. OpenAI projects $121 billion in compute spending by 2028, with inference expected to consume 65% of AI compute by 2026, while both firms report...
SageX AI Launches Unstructured Data Platform for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers – AI Data Transformation for Capital Markets
SageX AI has launched an unstructured data platform tailored for hedge funds and asset managers, promising to turn the 90% of unstructured data into AI‑ready, structured intelligence. The no‑code solution claims to cut data processing costs by up to 90%...
Onix Expands Google Cloud Collaboration Around Agentic AI and Data
Onix announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise‑scale AI deployments, committing to drive over $500 million in Google Cloud consumption and boost services revenue. The collaboration centers on Onix’s Wingspan platform, which blends data modernization with agentic AI...
The One Piece of Data that Could Actually Shed Light on Your Job and AI
AI’s potential to replace human labor has sparked panic, but economists warn that current tools—like task‑exposure scores from O*NET—are inadequate for forecasting job displacement. University of Chicago economist Alex Imas argues that without price‑elasticity data linking AI‑driven productivity gains to...
Sam Altman Watches Awkwardly As He’s Shown Bizarre ChatGPT Issue: “Uh, Maybe, Uhhh…”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was shown a TikTok clip where ChatGPT’s voice mode claimed a user’s two‑second run lasted over ten minutes, then defended the error. Altman brushed the glitch as a "known issue" and suggested it could take about...
CEA-Leti, CEA-List and PSMC Collaborate to Integrate RISC-V and MicroLED Silicon Photonics Into 3D Stacking and Interposer for...
CEA‑Leti, CEA‑List and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) announced a partnership to embed CEA‑List’s RISC‑V processor IP and CEA‑Leti’s microLED silicon‑photonic chiplets into PSMC’s 3D‑stacking and interposer platform. The integration replaces traditional copper interconnects with short‑reach, high‑bandwidth optical links, delivering...
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Financial services firms adopting AI‑driven coding tools such as Cursor have seen output explode from 25,000 to 250,000 lines of code per month, creating a backlog of roughly one million lines awaiting review. The surge has overwhelmed traditional security and...
ESET Previews New AI Security Features to Secure Chatbot Communications and AI Workflows
ESET unveiled a suite of AI‑focused security tools at RSAC 2026, slated for release later this year. The offering includes a browser‑level guard that inspects both prompts and LLM responses to block malicious links, scripts, and inadvertent data leaks. New...
MCP Maintainers From Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI Lay Out Enterprise Security Roadmap at Dev Summit
At the MCP Dev Summit in New York, maintainers from Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI announced an enterprise‑focused security roadmap under the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The AAIF, now 170 members strong, will steer the Model Context Protocol (MCP) toward...
How Meta Used AI to Map Tribal Knowledge in Large-Scale Data Pipelines
Meta built a pre‑compute engine of 50+ specialized AI agents that scanned its 4,100‑plus file, three‑repo data pipeline and produced 59 concise context files capturing tribal knowledge. This "compass" layer lifted AI coverage from roughly 5% to 100% of the...
New IFS Report on State AI Laws
In March 2026 the White House unveiled an AI policy framework that seeks broad federal preemption of state regulations, branding the existing landscape as a dangerous "patchwork" of roughly 1,200 bills. The Institute for Freedom and Society (IFS) report counters...
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Economy: Public Wealth Funds, Robot Taxes, and a Four-Day Work Week
OpenAI released an "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" outlining how AI could reshape wealth and work. The paper proposes a public wealth fund, a robot tax, higher taxes on AI‑driven capital gains, and subsidized four‑day workweeks. It frames AI...
Apiiro?s AI Threat Modeling Is Built to Target Security and Compliance to Prevent Risks Before Code Exists
Apiiro has launched AI Threat Modeling, an extension of its Guardian Agent platform that automatically creates architecture‑aware threat models before any code is written. The feature uses the company’s patented Deep Code Analysis technology to map software architecture across code,...
Neocloud Storm Gathers as Data Center Deals Stall Over Credit Risk
Neocloud providers are finding that aggressive pricing, long‑term terms and prepaid fees no longer secure colocation capacity. Providers now demand investment‑grade credit and solid utilization visibility, turning lease underwriting into a project‑finance exercise. Even premium rates of $155‑$160 per kW...
Machine Learning and Single-Cell Technology Combined to Drive High-Performance Cell Line Development
OneCyte and Kemp Proteins have formed a strategic partnership that fuses OneCyte’s high‑throughput single‑cell cloning platform with Kemp’s machine‑learning‑driven protein design system, PROTiQ. The combined workflow uses in‑silico sequence evaluation to flag developability risks, then rapidly screens thousands of clones...
Using AI to Speed up Australia’s Environmental Approvals Risks ‘Robodebt-Style’ Failures, Scientists Say
Conservation scientists warn that a $13 million (≈$8.6 million USD) AI pilot to accelerate Australia’s environmental approvals could produce “robodebt‑style” mistakes. The Biodiversity Council says the EPBC Act’s vague language and scarce species data make automated decisions unreliable. Experts argue clearer standards and...
The Price of Progress: How Manufacturers Are Weighing AI’s Energy Demands
Manufacturers are accelerating AI and robotics deployments, with 81% of executives planning higher AI spend over the next three years. While early‑stage robots like Agility Robotics' Digit cost roughly $1 per shift in electricity, experts warn that energy demand can...
OPINION: Fast, Flexible AI Testing Is the Foundation of Strategic Leadership
Generative AI is outpacing traditional multi‑year planning cycles, forcing leaders to shift from static roadmaps to rapid experimentation. Wolfe recommends a dedicated, small AI testing team that isolates proof‑of‑concept work from daily operations, ensuring focus and speed. Clear accountability across...
The Arms Race Has Gone Airborne: What Investors Need to Know
Draganfly and Palladyne AI have completed a SwarmOS integration milestone that proves autonomous, decentralized drone swarming for U.S. defense applications. Edge AI now equips drones with on‑board computing, eliminating reliance on GPS or radio links and rendering traditional jamming ineffective....
Speed Won’t Win the AI Era. Architecture Will
The AI landscape is shifting from a speed‑driven race to an architecture‑driven era as autonomous agents move from assistive tools to decision‑making engines. While 84% of enterprises plan to boost AI‑agent spending, the rapid deployment of autonomous systems has already...
Target Puts Customers on the Hook for AI Shopping Assistant Errors
Target is rolling out a Gemini‑powered AI shopping assistant that can select and purchase items on behalf of shoppers. The retailer’s updated terms and conditions state that any transaction executed by the AI is considered authorized by the customer, making...
Claude Subscribers Now Have to Pay to Use OpenClaw
Anthropic announced that Claude subscriptions will no longer include usage of third‑party tools like the open‑source OpenClaw framework, effective April 4. Subscribers must now purchase extra usage bundles—discounted up to 30%—or switch to a pay‑as‑you‑go Claude API model. The change sparked...
OpenAI Proposes 'Social Safety Net' Policies
OpenAI released a 13‑page blueprint titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,” proposing a public wealth fund, a national AI‑seeded health fund, four‑day work weeks, and an AI‑driven advertising ecosystem. The plan aims to share AI efficiency gains, mitigate job...
Lessons From The IRS’ AI Implementation Playbook
In 2022 the IRS launched its largest technology‑enabled transformation, using generative AI to modernize core taxpayer services. By deploying micro‑scale pilots within a defined "risk window," the agency lifted call‑answer rates from under 30% to over 85% and cut paper‑return...
Hormel Modernizes Supply Chain with AI Planning Platform
Hormel Foods has rolled out the o9 artificial‑intelligence planning platform across more than 70 of its facilities, linking demand, supply and inventory in a single system. The deployment, completed between March and December 2025, aims to shift the company from...
AI Agents Now Have Their Own Job Board
Monday.com has launched Agentalent.ai, a managed marketplace where enterprises can post, evaluate, and hire AI agents as digital employees. The platform mirrors traditional recruitment, offering role definitions, candidate vetting, and onboarding within monday.com workflows. Built with AWS and Anthropic, agents...
IBM Achieves FedRAMP Status for 11 Software Solutions
IBM announced FedRAMP authorization for 11 AI and automation solutions, including several watsonx products, marking a four‑fold expansion of its FedRAMP portfolio in just one year. The solutions are hosted exclusively on AWS GovCloud (U.S.), allowing federal agencies to access...
5 Ways State and Local Governments Will Operationalize AI in 2026
State and local governments are moving from isolated AI pilots to fully embedded, orchestrated AI solutions by 2026. Funding programs like broadband and rural health grants are driving the adoption of platforms that connect intake, compliance, and disbursement workflows. Infrastructure...
Democratizing Innovation with Agentic AI
Microsoft’s new low‑code AI platform lets healthcare staff build custom agents without programming expertise, enabling rapid solutions for clinical and back‑office challenges. By offering drag‑and‑drop interfaces and pre‑built connectors to electronic health records and billing systems, the tool democratizes agentic...
Parsing the AI and Gaming Future with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang | GTC Q&A
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an unscripted two‑hour keynote at GTC 2026, unveiling more than a dozen AI‑focused gaming announcements. The event in San Jose attracted over 30,000 attendees, underscoring the growing appetite for AI‑driven technology in entertainment. Huang highlighted...