AI is easy to fake, Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz tells SF Standard
Tyler Shultz helped expose the blood-testing fraud at Theranos. He now says AI is hard to vet, and investors need to do real due diligence.
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Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks
Pope Leo XIV called on Friday for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed”. Decisions on human life, freedom and the use of force must always stay
‘You Can See Everything’: What Was Billy Evans Watching at 2x?
What was Elizabeth Holmes’s partner watching in the new Nathan Fielder documentary? We found the videos (and the scientists in them).
Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store
Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He
AWS grows 39% and Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027
Amazon’s free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn over the 12 months to September. Spending on AI drove most of the drop, the company said
Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be
Collabora has published its own account of the Danish ministry pilot that earlier coverage, including ours, had described as Denmark moving off Microsoft’s office software.
22 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray
Ubuntu works reasonably well out of the box, but a fresh installation still leaves plenty of room for improvement. A few tweaks, some essential software
GM will pay $220m to settle claims it sold drivers’ Smart Driver data
General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data
Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026.
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has
AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks
Home to tales inspired by the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” the archive was taken down after “an intrusion,” one of its founders
Nvidia in talks to guarantee debt for Nscale’s Anthropic data centre
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt for Nscale, the UK AI cloud company. The money would build a West Virginia
Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
US President Tweety McTreason has ordered trade talks on robot imports. A Commerce Department investigation found that foreign-made robots and industrial machinery threaten national security.