Two teenagers sentenced to probation for creating AI-generated nude images of 60 girls now face a second legal front — a civil lawsuit targeting the private school that knew about the abuse months before police did. LANCASTER, Pennsylvania — A Lancaster County juvenile court sentenced two 16-year-old boys to two years of probation on Wednesday, March 25, for producing 347 AI-generated sexually explicit images of 59…
OpenAI has indefinitely shelved its planned erotic chatbot feature, citing safety concerns and investor pressure, as the company accelerates a sweeping consolidation of its product line ahead of a possible 2026 public listing worth up to $1 trillion. SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI indefinitely paused its planned “adult mode” for ChatGPT on March 25, 2026, according to a report by the Financial Times,…
A federal judge has cleared a class of investors to sue Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang over claims the chipmaker buried more than $1 billion in crypto mining GPU sales inside its gaming revenue, exposing shareholders to undisclosed market risk during 2017 and 2018. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — A U.S. federal judge certified a securities fraud class action…
Mistral’s new open-source text-to-speech model, built on a 3-billion-parameter architecture, runs directly on smartphones and smartwatches — moving voice cloning away from expensive cloud APIs and into users’ hands for the first time at this performance level. PARIS — French AI company Mistral released Voxtral TTS on Thursday, March 26, 2026, a new open-source text-to-speech model built to run locally on…
First Lady Melania Trump introduced the Figure 03 humanoid robot at a White House summit on Wednesday, pitching the $25,000 physical labor machine as a future autonomous classroom educator, signaling a controversial potential shift in American education policy. WASHINGTON, D.C. — First Lady Melania Trump formally endorsed autonomous robotics for child development Wednesday at the White House, according to official…
A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading users about child safety, ordering $375 million in civil penalties — the first successful state lawsuit of its kind against the company. A second trial phase in May could force structural changes to Meta’s platforms. SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO — A civil jury in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to…
Manga artists worldwide are discovering that drawing at the correct B4 manuscript size — and understanding the scaling rules that follow — is not optional if they want their work to survive the print publishing pipeline.
HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Georges Elhedery is advancing a massive corporate restructuring that threatens 20,000 global back-office jobs. The multi-year plan leverages artificial intelligence to permanently replace human compliance and transaction monitoring teams.
China’s biggest tech companies race to profit from an AI agent craze while the government quietly bans it from government offices — and ordinary users are already paying the price.
Nvidia’s open-source inference “operating system” enters full production with adoption from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and dozens of enterprises – all getting the performance gains for free, entirely through software.