Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta said it would open source its most powerful AI models and…
OpenAI has halted some “internal activities” involving a new model amid fears over the cyber threat it potentially poses, amid a wave of security incidents involving major AI labs. Recent disclosures that AI systems from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta were involved in security incidents prompted a wave of concerns over the development of models. U.S….
Shares of Australia’s Sunrise Energy Metals jumped as much as 29% on Monday after the rare earth miner secured a $400 million investment in long-term debt financing from the U.S. to support the development of the world’s first primary mine for scandium. The Trump administration’s backing for Sunrise comes as major economies seek to shore…
Hirun | Istock | Getty Images Over the past two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their AI models went rogue during routine security testing. In explaining what happened, the companies each mentioned the same small Israeli startup: Irregular. Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Irregular is a niche player…
A folder of social media applications, including TikTok, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, Discord, and Messenger. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Millennials may feel a pang of nostalgia at the news of Myspace’s planned revival, but analysts caution that the once-dominant social media platform faces long odds in an overcrowded market…
A pedestrian walks by a Verizon store on Nov. 13, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Service was down late Saturday afternoon for several thousand Verizon customers in the U.S. The outages began around 3:30 p.m. ET, with Verizon receiving the highest number of complaints at more than 13,000 at its…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Cybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions. “We need to chill the hype a little bit,” said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. “Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The…
Collateralized loan obligations may become the next big push in the exchange-traded fund industry. VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth suggests there’s investor demand for the alternative assets due to ongoing interest rate uncertainty. “[CLOs have] been popular within the marketplace,” the firm’s head of research told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. CLOs are short-term fixed income strategies…
AI stocks came roaring back this week as investors worked through another wave of corporate earnings and a surprisingly weak July jobs report . The major averages notched a second straight week of gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 both touching record highs. The blue-chip index closed at a…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Earlier this week, Clément Delangue, the CEO of startup Hugging Face — which was recently on the receiving end of a rogue cyber attack by OpenAI’s models — made the somewhat controversial claim that China was winning the…
