Weekend Update segment lampoons AI industry’s doom warnings In a recent Saturday Night Live broadcast, the show took aim at recent alarmist rhetoric from leaders in the artificial‑intelligence field. Weekend Update anchor Michael Che opened the piece, stumbling over the…
BCBSA Study Links AI Use in Claims to Rising Costs An analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association found that hospitals’ deployment of artificial intelligence tools while filing insurance claims added roughly $942 million to national health expenditures across a…
Bitget hit in Thursday cyberattack, loses over $351M During a cyberattack on Thursday, North Korean hackers allegedly siphoned more than $351 million from the servers of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget. The incident marks the largest known digital‑currency theft of 2026, surpassing a…
Program Seeks AI Enthusiasts to Test Upcoming Features During this week’s Connect 2026 developer conference, Meta unveiled a suite of enhancements for its Muse AI assistant and immediately opened a request portal for early adopters. Users can now ask Muse…
Rapid Adoption and Market Data Since its launch on September 8, Muse has surpassed 3.4 million downloads, according to Sensor Tower’s latest estimate, up from 2.5 million earlier in the week. Independent trackers show a wider range: Apptopia reports 4.3 million total installs to…
Alan Turing, a pioneering computer scientist, is most famous for the Turing test, which probes the ability to differentiate between artificial and human intelligence. Yet his most consequential wartime challenge was breaking the Enigma cipher employed by Nazi Germany in…
Deal Overview Anthropic will commit $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced Thursday. The figure dwarfs a previously reported $1.8 billion agreement disclosed by Bloomberg in May. According to Akamai’s securities filing, the commitment is conditional on Akamai…
Founders propose super‑voting share structure to retain control Amid preparations for its public debut, Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a plan that would grant CEO Dario Amodei and his six co‑founders special shares representing a combined 50.1% voting power…
Massive Capital Raise Highlights AI Data Center Costs Nscale, a British neocloud specialist, announced on Friday that it has locked in $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of its planned initial public offering later this year. The financing structure, which includes…
Explosive growth in cities and riders In September 2024 Waymo served just three markets—Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco—while today it operates robotaxi service in 15 U.S. cities, with most of those launches occurring in the past year. Ridership has surged…
