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Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

This is on top of Apple's previously announced plan to invest $500 billion into the U.S. over the next four years.

Instagram notes that location sharing is off by default on Instagram Map, and a user's location only updates when they open the app, meaning it doesn't provide real-time location updates.

Tinder will redesign and debut college specific features, like searching for people within the college, to appeal to younger users.

Canadian AI firm Cohere is taking aim at alleviating data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and customers', data safe behind their own firewalls. 

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping "tens of millions of dollars" worth of high-performance AI chips to China.

Celebrity Lockets is a new feature where celebrities can engage with their most loyal followers on their home screens.

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Microsoft will bring OpenAI's new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers.

Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.

The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.

This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.

Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino lands at health tech startup eMed.

While the ActivityPub integration is a main selling point for Ghost 6, this major release includes a number of other changes and new additions.

For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state-of-the-art.

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple matter.

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world's first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.

The removal of age restrictions is intended to provide younger students with access to the AI research tool, allowing them to better understand their class materials.

The company announced that it took down over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centers targeting people around the world.