Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more. On Thursday, The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three-year licensing agreement that will allow users of OpenAI’s Sora video generator to create short clips featuring more than 200…
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet. Oracle stock dropped after it reported disappointing revenues on Wednesday alongside a $15 billion increase in its planned spending on data centers this year to serve artificial intelligence groups. Shares in Larry Ellison’s database company…
Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals. On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score on SWE-bench Verified,…
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands. A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter”…
Facebook agrees to change “pay or consent” model after talks with European Commission. Meta has agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” business model in the EU, seeking to agree to a deal that avoids further regulatory fines at a time when the bloc’s digital rule book…
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again? Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after…
Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed. Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed Wednesday in React Server, an open-source package that’s widely used by websites and in cloud environments. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and…
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying. Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment…
Researchers say there’s more to the network, which has operated for 14 years. A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that is targeting government and private-industry organizations in the US…
Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned. The shoe is most certainly on the other foot. On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” at the company to improve ChatGPT, delaying advertising plans and other products in the process, The…
