In New York, a coalition of publishers representing nearly 400 local and regional U.S. newspapers has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging widescale copyright infringement. The complaint, lodged in a New York federal court, claims the companies used automated web scraping tools to copy millions of original...
Israel – Iranian cyberattacks on Israeli systems have tripled over the past year, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate chief Yossi Karadi said in a June 29, 2026 interview with German newspaper Die Welt. Karadi reported that authorities recorded about 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, compared with roughly 1,600 in...
SpaceX launched the SiriusXM SXM-11 digital audio radio satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 10:25 p.m. EDT. The satellite, built by Larentis Space Systems on the 1300-class platform, weighs about 15,000 pounds (7,000 kilograms), making it one of the...
South Korea has announced plans to build a $518 billion semiconductor megacluster south of Seoul to strengthen its role in global chip supply and meet fast-rising demand from artificial intelligence applications. The project, centered in Yongin and nearby cities, will be developed through 2047 and is expected to involve major...
United States – A reported preliminary chip-manufacturing agreement between Apple and Intel is drawing significant attention across the U.S. technology sector as the country seeks to rebuild domestic semiconductor production and curb reliance on overseas fabs. Industry analysts say the potential partnership could become one of the most significant semiconductor...
Google has significantly restricted Meta Platforms’ access to its Gemini artificial intelligence models due to a severe shortage of computing capacity, according to reporting first highlighted by the Financial Times. Around March 2026, Google told Meta it could not supply the full Gemini capacity Meta had requested, with the social...
Washington — The U.S. government on Friday partially lifted its export block on Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence system, Claude Mythos 5, ending a two‑week standoff rooted in national security concerns that began on June 12, 2026. In a letter to Anthropic’s chief compute officer, Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard...
U.S. state officials and cybersecurity regulators have issued urgent warnings after AssuranceAmerica Managing General Agency, LLC reported a major data breach affecting at least 1.1 million people in seven states. The Atlanta-based nonstandard auto insurer said malicious cyber activity first targeted an employee on March 16, 2026, with suspicious network...
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology conglomerate Alibaba of organizing what it calls the largest known artificial intelligence distillation attack against its Claude models, according to a June 10, 2026 letter sent to US Senate Banking Committee leaders and shared with the White House. The company alleges operators linked to Alibaba...
Washington, United States – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of its antitrust review, clearing Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies Corp., an independent hardware startup focused on next-generation optical communication for artificial intelligence data centers. The approval, recorded under transaction number 20261601, was confirmed through...
