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Meta has banned advertisements from ByteDance across its platforms. The article does not provide sufficient detail beyond the headline to fully contextualize the decision. However, banning ByteDance — the Chinese parent company of TikTok — from advertising on Meta's platforms marks a significant escalation between the two tech rivals, and could signal broader concerns about ByteDance amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny.
"ChatGPT for Teens is an unacceptable risk for kids. You shouldn't be marketing safety features to parents and young people that don't work. We believe it should be paused." -- Jim Steyer
New York Times testing and an independent study by Common Sense Media found that OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens mode still gives students homework answers and fails to reliably protect teenagers in crisis situations.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens in August with safeguards meant to address concerns that AI chatbots harm education and teen mental health, but testing by columnist Brian X. Chen and Common Sense Media (4,000 prompts) found the chatbot readily provides homework answers, failed to refer users to crisis resources 25 percent of the time in high-harm situations, and sent zero parental notifications during tests on new parent-linked accounts. Common Sense Media is calling for OpenAI to pull the product from the market, while child safety activists are considering pushing for chatbot bans in schools. The stakes are high: OpenAI's internal metrics show 90 percent of teenagers on ChatGPT were already using it for learning, and if OpenAI fixed these problems, it could shift how chatbots are designed industrywide.
"the American system working as designed" -- Nvidia spokesman
Nvidia is in talks to acquire or further invest in Reflection AI, a US open-weight model developer it has already backed with $800m, according to a Financial Times report.
The talks, still at an early stage, could result in an acqui-hire—hiring Reflection's staff and licensing its technology—which would avoid a lengthy regulatory review. The move comes as the Trump administration hopes Reflection will rival cheap Chinese open models like DeepSeek. It also follows Nvidia's $12.93bn deal to buy Hugging Face and a licensing agreement with Groq, which the Justice Department is investigating to determine whether Nvidia structured it to avoid antitrust review.
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"Using an advanced surveillance capability such as a cell-site simulator against members of the free press for reporting stories that are unfavorable to the president is an appalling attack on the First Amendment" -- Cooper Quintin
Court filings reveal that US law enforcement agents obtained warrants to use cell-site simulators (Stingrays) to track and arrest Jerome Richardson, a former Temple University student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon's coverage of an anti-ICE protest, and also sought surveillance authorization targeting journalists' phones.
The previously unreported warrants are part of a broader campaign of aggressive federal investigative tactics—including 92 customs summonses for journalists' phone and YouTube records—against people connected to a January protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Privacy advocates have long warned that cell-site simulators, which indiscriminately collect data from all nearby phones, could be turned against protesters and journalists, and the case raises serious questions about the accuracy of information investigators presented to judges: prosecutors have conceded that a false claim about Lemon and Fort "chanting with agitators" appeared in at least 15 warrant affidavits. The use of such intrusive surveillance is especially questionable given that Richardson publicly signaled he would surrender voluntarily—and did so two days after the second simulator warrant was signed.
"We were kind of in a back and forth for a bit where we'd cover, and then when they'd come to service, they'd remove," -- Peggy Heinrich
Elgin Community College in Illinois tried to cancel its contract with Flock Safety and remove the company's surveillance cameras, but Flock refused and even repeatedly removed coverings the school placed over the devices.
The college grew concerned after learning Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that law enforcement and Flock employees were allegedly abusing access to the data. Even after the school offered to pay out the remaining five months of the contract, Flock declined to remove the cameras until the contract expired in April. The standoff highlights the difficulties institutions face in exiting agreements with surveillance vendors and raises questions about data privacy and corporate control over campus security infrastructure.
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"A cyberattack has been affecting the refrigeration production facilities of several stores in our network since last night." -- Dominique Schelcher
A cyberattack has struck major supermarket chains across France and the Netherlands, hijacking Danfoss refrigeration controls to force continuous defrost cycles at 50 degrees Celsius while also disrupting deliveries, electronic shelf labels, and loyalty programs.
The attack has hit retailers including Intermarché, Leclerc, Coopérative U, Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall & Gall, with losses already approaching 300,000 euros and potentially running into several million euros nationwide. Coopérative U president Dominique Schelcher called the incident "extremely serious," noting that targeting equipment essential to food preservation and supply is unprecedented. It remains unclear whether the French and Dutch incidents are related or how widespread either attack is, but the disruption highlights the vulnerability of internet-connected industrial systems underpinning everyday food retail operations.
"Modern warfare no longer discriminates between military targets and commercial infrastructure," -- analyst for The National Interest
A Ukrainian drone attack knocked a Russian data center offline Sunday, highlighting how data centers are becoming increasingly attractive targets in war.
Russia and Ukraine have traded strikes on digital infrastructure in recent weeks, causing major outages on both sides and causing Russian bot traffic to plummet. While such attacks are not unprecedented — Iranian strikes hit data centers in Bahrain and the UAE earlier this year — their consequences extend well beyond the battlefield, disrupting services that civilians and businesses rely on. Analysts suggest firms should adopt "reasonable self-protection measures" in response to the growing threat.
"It felt like another chance to turn my life around," said Ms. Weeks, a single mother and a part-time house cleaner in Santa Cruz, Calif.
The New York Times spent more than a year following recipients of guaranteed basic income programs in the San Francisco Bay Area, finding that monthly cash payments provided immediate relief for groceries, rent and other expenses but mixed results in creating long-term stability.
The findings matter as universal basic income has regained prominence amid fears of A.I.-driven job losses, with tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei promoting it as a solution. Google has funded six experimental initiatives in the Bay Area with a $50 million donation, each giving hundreds of previously homeless participants roughly $1,000 a month. While academic studies show such programs improve short-term employment, mental health and food insecurity, The Times's reporting revealed the limits of temporary payments: recipients like Mikole Weeks, who received $1,330 a month for a year, gained breathing room and new opportunities but struggled to achieve lasting independence within the program's timeframe — a challenge advocates say reflects structural problems that 12 months of support cannot solve.
"It's not 15 years from now; it's in the next decade, easily." -- Cynthia Scharf
A war game simulation held at Queen Mary University of London brought together scientists, diplomats, and military personnel to test how the world would respond to the rapid development of solar geoengineering—and the results were alarming, with talks collapsing into distrust and finger-pointing.
The simulation, designed by Leeds University researcher Danielle Young, revealed how geopolitical rivalry—particularly between the US and China—could derail international governance of solar radiation modification, a technology that promises to cool the planet but carries vast, poorly understood risks. With private firms like Stardust Solutions raising millions and Elon Musk publicly backing geoengineering, experts say the world will face decisions about governing the technology far sooner than policymakers expect. The exercise also exposed how scientific advice was sidelined in favor of political posturing, with participants largely ignoring expert input and climate disaster alerts, and a fictional fossil-fuel-backed NGO attempting to covertly fund monitoring efforts.
"The IWGB Private Hire Drivers Union opposes the rollout of driverless cars" -- Alex Marshall
London's minicab drivers' union, the IWGB, has called on Mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London to halt the rollout of robotaxis, following a London Assembly Transport Committee report questioning whether the capital is ready for driverless cars.
The 66-page report concludes there is insufficient evidence that London should welcome autonomous passenger services, citing safety incidents during trials, gaps in regulatory oversight — TfL must consent to launches but cannot independently suspend or revoke permits — and threats to some 105,000 licensed private hire drivers' livelihoods. With Waymo, Wayve, Uber, and Baidu gearing up to launch services, the committee stopped short of calling for a ban, instead recommending tougher safety requirements, caps on vehicle numbers, and expanded TfL powers, while a YouGov survey found more Londoners oppose robotaxis (42 percent) than support them (29 percent).
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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to raise $100 billion from Gulf investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, to fund investments in artificial intelligence. The fundraising effort would build on Son's prior Vision Fund model, which drew heavily on Middle Eastern sovereign wealth capital, and signals a renewed large-scale push into AI amid the sector's boom. Securing Gulf backing would give SoftBank enormous firepower to make major AI bets, though the outcome of the talks is not guaranteed. The move underscores how sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf have become central financiers of the global AI buildout.
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