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Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday to accuse the Redmond tech giant and OpenAI of using their journalism to train artificial intelligence models.

The South Korean government is firming up plans for a state-backed venture investment arm modeled on In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s investment vehicle, according to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The institution is expected to launch by the end of the first half of next year at the earliest, or during the second…

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, filing a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that accuses the companies of using the newspapers’ published work to train and operate AI products without permission or payment. The Seattle…

OpenAI said on September 5, 2026, that it is developing a framework for when and how it will report misalignment incidents that surface during training, evaluation, and deployment, framing the work as a response to the “wiki incident,” in which its agents wrote to several public internet sites.

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of…

Flash storage scams have been around for years and remain a lucrative way for scammers to profit from an item that likely costs only a few dollars in parts. These scams include USB flash drives, SD cards, and even SSDs, but they all employ a similar tactic. These products are listed as high-capacity storage priced…

In the summer heat, an AC unit from some of the best air conditioner brands definitely comes in handy, to the point where it’s pretty much a requirement. One potential problem with the AC unit that you have is that’s too small for your space. One of the easiest ways to know is to be aware of…

A second bite of the marketing apple in the latter half of the year seems like a good idea, as Swiss watch exports declined again in 2025 after a drop in 2024. However, despite America’s tariff seesaw, the US is still by far the single largest market for Swiss watches. And, more positively for watch…

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars don’t look like they have ears, and yet they’re able to sense predators such as wasps. How does the caterpillar know a wasp is approaching? Scientists do not fully understand how this caterpillar’s senses work, but we are part of a team of biologists and engineers who want to figure it out.…

The West Coast of the United States lies on the Pacific ring of fire, the most seismically active region in the world. It’s home to two major faults, the San Andreas in California and the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, that are capable of producing catastrophic earthquakes. Both are long overdue for one.