Month: September 2025
136 posts
The growing debate over expanding age verification laws
As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.
OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality
OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models’ behavior, and its leader is moving on to…
Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a…
Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter…
Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment
Google’s Gemini comes up short on kids’ safety, says Common Sense Media.
Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers, including SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, among…
Rivian makes its second small workforce cut of the year ahead of R2 SUV launch
The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.
Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again
The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements…
Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain
Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining…