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Last updated July 12, 2026
A stalking victim is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and the company ignored three safety warnings
Google Ads is merging its enhanced conversions features into a single toggle and allowing multiple data sources simultaneously
Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was struck by a Molotov cocktail early Friday morning
Perplexity integrates with Plaid to let users link bank accounts, credit cards, and loans for AI-powered personal finance analysis
Anthropic briefly suspended OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger’s account for suspicious activity before reinstating it hours later
Google Ads agencies are being targeted by phishing scams disguised as legitimate client inquiries to gain access to ad accounts
Federal Reserve and Treasury convened major bank CEOs after Anthropic’s Mythos model raised alarms over financial system cybersecurity
Nvidia-backed SiFive raises $400M at a $3.65B valuation to bring its open-source RISC-V chip designs into AI data centers
Cisco is in talks to acquire AI agent security startup Astrix Security for between $250M and $350M
Meta’s Claudeonomics AI token leaderboard was taken down days after The Information reported on it
OpenAI projects its advertising business will hit $102B in revenue by 2030, rising from $2.4B this year to $11B next year
An Illinois man received 150+ unwanted TikTok Shop return packages after a scammer used his address as a fake return address
Checkout.com integrates with SAP Commerce Cloud’s Open Payment Framework to simplify enterprise payment deployments
Canva acquires agentic AI platform Simtheory and marketing automation tool Ortto ahead of its April 16 product event
Amazon’s Andy Jassy says the company may sell Trainium chips to outside customers, putting the business at $50B in annual revenue
Federal appeals court refuses to block Trump’s blacklisting of Anthropic but expedites the case with oral arguments set for May 19
Google News is now surfacing Polymarket betting odds alongside news articles, including as top results on personalized feeds
Google Cloud and Intel expand their multiyear partnership to co-develop custom chips for AI infrastructure
OpenAI cuts ChatGPT Pro to $100/month with a new tier targeting Codex users, keeping the $200/month plan for heavy workloads
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