Twenty-One Billion
FBI: US cybercrime losses hit $21 billion in 2025, up 26% in a year and fivefold since 2020. In the same period, every major AI company launched cybersecurity products. Defense spending grew. Losses grew faster. The ratio is the argument.
Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities
Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products
Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
The FBI, the NSA, and other US agencies warn that Iran-linked hackers targeted industrial control devices used in critical US water and energy infrastructure
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
FBI: US victims lost nearly $21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode
ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome. — With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar.
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz
Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic
Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services …
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read
Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets, after the GENIUS Act
Quick Take — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and Sam Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board
Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, available under an MIT license
Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays
Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
Asus Zenbook A16 review: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is speedy and 48GB of RAM is great for $1,599, but the chassis feels cheap and the battery life lags rivals
It's not all about what's on the inside. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers
Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim
One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when, tired of listening …
Letter: ICE officials confirm the agency is using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts …
Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; Gates says he's “looking forward” to answering questions
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to testify before the US congress in June about his interactions …
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems
Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system …
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing
Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips …
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser
Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board …
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex's usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly Codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M
To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!
Anthropic hires Eric Boyd as its head of infrastructure; Boyd previously oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and ~1,500 workers and was at Microsoft for 16 years
Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption …
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring
Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching …
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire
Follow Melia Russell … - Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting
In response to escalating concerns about child safety online, OpenAI has unveiled a blueprint to enhance U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom.
Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”
Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and publicly detailed its exploit without being prompted
first model too dangerous to release since GPT-2
TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile US executive to exit
TikTok advertising leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving the short-form video company, joining a wave of American executives stepping down over the past year.
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an “advisory role” at the end of June
Veteran Microsoft executive Julia Liuson is leaving after 34 years. … Microsoft is losing another veteran executive.
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, above 53.4% for Opus 4.6
Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model …
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation
PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech …
Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available
Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more
Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation
TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users
UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools
Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation
Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program
Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed
Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “reckoning”, it is not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more
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Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations
The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks
ZDNET's key takeaways — AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems. — Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security
this may shock people — must begin with the two A.I. superpowers, the U.S. and China. It is now urgent that they learn to collaborate to prevent bad actors from gaining access to this next level of cy...
Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls
Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO
Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-based study tool to help students generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in
Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: comfortable design, Xbox Full Screen beats Windows 11, and affordable, but sleep/wake issues, weak display, and average performance
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY
GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability
Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license
Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to $450M+ in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of its Computer agent and its shift to usage-based pricing
Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+
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Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; a $60M April 7 contract remains under dispute
Bets on a ceasefire between the US and Iran have sent more than $170 million coursing through Polymarket, making …
Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data
Z.ai raises the prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by 8% to 17% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as agentic AI demand surges
Luz Ding /Bloomberg:
Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M
Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, closing Sora, betting on text vs. world models, and more
it is going to go to AGI. We have line of sight to much better models coming this year.”