Ring cancels its planned surveillance partnership with Flock Safety following intense public backlash over mass monitoring fears, as users and politicians raise concerns about AI-powered features and potential connections to federal agencies like ICE.
Opaque Systems secures $24 million Series B funding at a $300 million valuation to expand its confidential AI infrastructure that uses cryptographic techniques to process sensitive financial and healthcare data without exposing it to systems or operators.
Waymo deploys sixth-generation Ojai robotaxis with enhanced weather navigation to employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles, announcing expansion plans to 10 US cities and London while facing political scrutiny over Chinese-made vehicles in the rapidly growing $25+ billion robotaxi market.
Anthropic secures massive $30 billion funding round at $380 billion valuation while making unprecedented pledge to cover all electricity costs for AI data center construction and grid upgrades to shield consumers from rising energy prices.
OpenAI and Google report that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are cloning their advanced AI models through mass prompting attacks that bypass restrictions, creating potentially dangerous copies without safety guardrails.
State-sponsored hackers from North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia increasingly weaponize artificial intelligence to accelerate cyberattacks, using large language models for reconnaissance and phishing while new AI-powered malware emerges that exploits commercial APIs to generate malicious code.
Apple pushes back Siri's major overhaul from March iOS 26.4 to later release due to persistent testing problems including slow response times, accuracy issues, and bugs that cause the assistant to default to ChatGPT over Apple's own technology.
Elon Musk forces out half of xAI's co-founders in major company restructuring as regulatory pressure mounts over Grok's deepfake capabilities and the AI startup prepares for IPO.
Google launches upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think AI that achieves gold-medal performance on International Physics and Chemistry Olympiads and scores 84.6% on advanced reasoning tests, now available to Ultra subscribers and select researchers.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Deep Think AI achieves groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs by autonomously solving decade-old mathematical conjectures, generating research papers independently, and settling four problems from Bloom's Erdős database while demonstrating collaborative capabilities across mathematics, physics, and computer science disciplines.