Adeoti Malik 
New Poll Finds Three-Quarters of Americans Think AI Companies Aren’t Doing Enough to Stop a Disaster American unease about artificial intelligence has reached its highest point yet, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that found 73 percent of respondents worry AI companies haven’t done nearly enough to keep the technology from causing serious harm to … Read more
Critics Say California’s Settlement With Paramount Gave Away Too Much to Clear Its Warner Bros Deal Opponents of the merger argue the settlement does little to protect jobs, fails to meaningfully preserve competition across Hollywood’s film, television and news businesses, and extracted only modest, temporary concessions from a media conglomerate about to become one of … Read more
DreamWorks’ ‘Forgotten Island’ Puts Filipino Folklore Center Stage, and Critics Are Calling It a Career Best DreamWorks Animation has spent decades mining fairy tales, dragons and ogres for its biggest hits, but its newest film, “Forgotten Island,” opening in US theaters September 25, marks the studio’s first real dive into Philippine mythology, and early reviews … Read more
Yen Slides for a Third Straight Day as Traders Doubt the Bank of Japan’s Nerve to Keep Hiking The Japanese yen extended its losing run against the dollar into a third consecutive session Tuesday, with currency traders increasingly skeptical that the Bank of Japan is actually prepared to raise rates quickly enough to close the … Read more
China’s Z.ai Disables Coding Assistant Features After Discovering It Secretly Uploaded Developers’ Code Overseas Beijing-based AI company Z.ai, also known by its earlier name Zhipu, has pulled back several features from its flagship coding assistant after discovering the tool had been quietly shipping entire local codebases to overseas cloud servers without asking users first, a … Read more
EU Auditors Say Weak Data Sharing Between Member States Is Leaving Europe’s Cyber Defenses Exposed Europe has spent years building an elaborate web of institutions meant to detect and respond to major cyberattacks, but a new assessment from the bloc’s independent spending watchdog says that architecture is only doing part of its job, largely because … Read more
The Always-Listening Gadget Boom Has a Problem Nobody’s Quite Solved Yet Walk into any tech conference this year and you’ll spot them everywhere: pendants, pins, glasses and watches, all quietly promising to remember your day for you. AI wearables have finally shaken off the reputation they earned back in 2024, when the Humane AI Pin … Read more
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI and global security Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is set to take part in a United Nations Security Council discussion on artificial intelligence this week, putting one of China’s most closely watched AI companies at the center of a global debate over how rapidly advancing technology is … Read more
IDP Education Turns Down Blackstone’s Sweetened A$2.50 Takeover Bid, Calling It Substantially Undervalued Australian education services firm IDP Education has knocked back a second takeover approach from private equity giant Blackstone, telling the market on Tuesday that even an improved offer still falls well short of what the business is actually worth. Blackstone Singapore lodged … Read more
Tech Stocks Extend Their Rebound as Oil’s Climb Back Above $100 and Rising Bond Yields Keep the Broader Market in Check Technology shares pushed higher again Tuesday, riding a fresh wave of enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, even as the rest of the market found itself stuck in place once crude oil climbed back above $100 … Read more