AI warfare is already here
…As a negotiation tactic, the DOD designated Anthropic a military supply chain risk in March, and President Donald Trump declared he was banning all government agencies from using its Claude system. The…
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With Saros, Housemarque makes a case for doing next-gen games differently
…Vanity is a risk. Should one put a disproportionate effort into how a thing looks, then said work may very well be considered shallow. But in the world of big-budget video…
Apple’s new parental controls are for keeping Apple out of trouble
When Apple put child safety front and center at WWDC on Monday, its stated goal was helping parents fine-tune their kids’ online experiences and avoid excessive screen time. But amid a…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…We’re going to come back to risk, because you have a bunch of new products that seem risky. I want to ask you the other Decoder question about structure. Last time…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…center buildout, it’s not the only risk. Payments on both Oracle’s bonds and its data center leases will occur on a fixed timeline. Anything that slows the buildout threatens Oracle…
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
…happened multiple times. Third-party vendors like k-ID, Persona, and Yoti can save every company from needing to run its own system and let them offload some risk. For users, there…
Reggie Fils-Aimé says Amazon once asked Nintendo to break the law
…But for a long time, Nintendo consoles had been largely unavailable on the site. In the 2000s, Amazon aggressively expanded beyond books and tried to undercut everyone on price. According to Fils…
Waymo recalls robotaxis for driving on flooded roads
…In the interim, the company has updated its vehicles to “increase weather-related constraints and updated the vehicles maps.” While no one was injured in the incident, it highlights the risk for…
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
…The unprecedented shutdown of the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models — which were already subject to safeguards limiting their use in “high-risk areas” — that followed gave new force to long-running…
Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
…No data collected through Time Doctor’s monitoring features is shared with any of these providers.” The nine platforms’ customers collectively include Amazon Ring, Ben & Jerry’s, Ticketmaster, Verizon, and Tesla, according…