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Chinese Grey Market Resells Claude API at 90% Discount via Proxy Networks

Oxford China Policy Lab researcher Zilan Qian found that proxy networks known as "transfer stations" operate openly on platforms including GitHub, Taobao, and T...

AI

Anthropic Details How It Improved Claude's Safety Training After Finding Agentic Misalignment

Anthropic published a research blog post detailing improvements to Claude's safety training after the company found agentic misalignment in older models, includ...

AI Tech & Business

OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm

In the second week of the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, president Greg Brockman testified that Musk had pushed for the creation of a for-profit entity and...

AI Tech & Business Infrastructure

Cloudflare to Cut 1,100 Jobs, Citing AI-Driven Productivity Gains

Cloudflare is laying off approximately 20 percent of its workforce, or about 1,100 people, in what co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince called the comp...

AI

OpenAI releases three new voice models targeting real-time agent applications

OpenAI released three new voice models through its API, bundling speech recognition, translation, and reasoning into single audio-to-audio interfaces rather tha...

Tech & Business

Trump Media Posts $405.9 Million Net Loss on $871,200 in Q1 Sales

Trump Media and Technology Group, the operator of social-media platform Truth Social, reported a $405.9 million net loss on net sales of $871,200 for the first ...

Tech & Business

Porsche Shuts Three Subsidiaries, Cutting More Than 500 Jobs

Porsche is closing three subsidiaries in a restructuring that will eliminate more than 500 jobs, the German automaker announced Friday. The move is part of a br...

Tech & Business Policy

U.S. Regulator Opens Probe Into Avride Self-Driving Crashes

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company partnered with Uber, after identifying 16 crashes...

Tech & Business

Sony forecasts profit rise and $3.2bn buyback despite sharp drop in PS5 sales

Sony Group on Friday issued guidance for the fiscal year ending March 2027, forecasting operating profit of 1.6 trillion yen, an 11 percent increase, and a shar...

Tech & Business

Nintendo raises Switch 2 price to $500, forecasts lower sales amid memory costs and tariffs

Nintendo is raising the United States price of its Switch 2 console by $50 to $500, citing higher memory component costs and U.S. tariffs. The increase is small...

Policy

Xbox Developer Double Fine Files to Form Union

Double Fine, the first-party Xbox game developer behind Psychonauts, is forming a union with the Communications Workers of America. As Aftermath reports, the s...

Policy

EU Research Service Warns VPNs Are a 'Loophole' in Age-Verification Laws

The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that virtual private networks are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, desc...

Policy AI

Revised GUARD Act Narrows Scope to AI Companions but Keeps Strict Age Verification

Lawmakers have narrowed the GUARD Act, a bill that would restrict minors' access to certain artificial-intelligence systems. The earlier version could have appl...

Policy Tech & Business

French Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Elon Musk and X

French prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X on Thursday, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal c...

Startups AI Tech & Business

Chinese Humanoid-Robot Startup Robot Era Raises Over $200 Million Led by SF Express

Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot Era has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by logistics firm SF Express. The investment follows a Mar...

Startups Tech & Business

SoftBank trims OpenAI margin loan to $6 billion after lenders push back on valuation

SoftBank Group has cut the size of a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake to as little as $6 billion, down from an initial $10 billion target, after creditors...

Cybersecurity

Meta Ends Instagram Encryption, Canvas Hit by Ransomware Attack

Education technology company Instructure took its Canvas learning management platform offline for maintenance on Thursday after a ransomware attack, disrupting ...

Cybersecurity AI

Palo Alto Networks Says Frontier AI-Assisted Analysis Matched a Year of Manual Penetration Testing in Three Weeks

Palo Alto Networks warned that frontier AI capabilities have reached an inflection point where models can operate as autonomous agents capable of discovering an...