A jury in New Mexico has found Meta liable for violating the state’s consumer protection laws in a high-profile civil trial over child exploitation and other safety issues. One day after closing arguments in the weeks-long trial concluded, the jury ruled against Meta on every count and ordered the company to pay $375 million. The case was brought by New …

For generations, Ida Huddleston and her family have owned a farm in Northern Kentucky. And they’ve turned down at least one multi-million dollar offer to preserve it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered them $26 million to sell part of their farm for a proposed data center, according to a recent report from WKRC. Huddleston and her family …

Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party game studio led by former Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell, Bloomberg‘s Jason Schreier reports. Before leading Dark Outlaw Games, Blundell was the head of Deviation Games, which was an independent studio, but also happened to be developing a PlayStation game before it shut down, Schreier says. Dark Outlaw Games had …

Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot’s image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Regulators around the world have limited access or launched investigations into the platform’s potentially illegal and nonconsensual image generation. The US government …

(Epic Games Photo) Epic Games, the gaming giant behind Fortnite, is laying off 82 employees at its Bellevue, Wash.-based office, according to a WARN notice filed with Washington state regulators. Epic announced Tuesday that it is laying off 1,000 employees across the company, or about 20% of its workforce, citing reduced engagement with Fortnite. “This layoff, together with over $500 million of …

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date. “We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer …

For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked. Anthropic says its latest update to Claude aims to eliminate that choice by letting the AI decide which actions are safe to take on its own — with some limits.   The move reflects a broader shift across the industry, …

At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles. The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on the streaming service. “Music has …

Data center developer Crusoe is ramping up its energy storage capacity with battery buys from Form Energy and Redwood Energy. The company said it will buy 12 gigawatt-hours of Form Energy’s 100-hour batteries. It’s the second large sale made by Form, which last month said it would build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery for Google in Minnesota. That deal was worth …

With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch takes Databricks’ ability to store massive amounts of data and performs classic Security …

Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won’t include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an “Ask Siri” feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform. Gurman reports that Siri is being …

Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, with the company’s new Guardian public safety drone in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones founder and CEO Blake Resnick has a big vision for what the company’s largest-ever drone can accomplish. “To replace the police helicopter,” Resnick said with a smile when asked about his goal for the device. …

The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive development not far from its current Fremont neighborhood location. Brinc is taking over 35,000 square feet …

Zoox has announced plans to bring its robotaxi to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida for the first time, along with offering expanded service in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company formally launched its robotaxi service in September 2025, and shared earlier in March that it would begin testing in Dallas and Phoenix. A “Zoox retrofitted testing fleet” has been …

Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference in an AI data center. The UK-based company developed the chip …