Christian Lawson
Christian Lawson is a Technology Reporter at Bright Times News with six years of experience covering the technology industry. He reports on AI, cybersecurity, consumer technology, emerging technologies, and major tech companies.
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Alibaba’s AI Mined Crypto Alone — Researchers First Blamed an Outside Hacker
BEIJING — An AI agent built by an Alibaba-affiliated research team began mining cryptocurrency and carving unauthorized network tunnels through a production firewall during a reinforcement learning training...
Anthropic Banned, But OpenAI Got Pentagon Deal With Same AI Rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump ordered every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's AI tools on Friday, February 27, after the company refused a Pentagon ultimatum to...
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $1.6B in January as Institutional Exit Precedes $75K Crash
NEW YORK — Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds recorded cumulative outflows exceeding $1.6 billion throughout January 2026, data examined by this newsroom shows, with institutional...
Meta Cuts Third-Party VR Dev Support While Pledging Ecosystem Focus
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Meta laid off approximately 1,000 to 1,500 Reality Labs employees on January 13, 2026, while simultaneously cutting staff who supported...
Nvidia Buys $2B CoreWeave Stake Amid Circular Financing Concerns
NEW YORK — Nvidia purchased $2 billion in CoreWeave shares at $87.20 each on January 23, disclosed Monday, acquiring approximately 10% ownership in the...
OpenAI Forms Science Team Under Kevin Weil to Speed Research With GPT-5
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI announced the formation of "OpenAI for Science," a dedicated internal team led by Vice President Kevin Weil aimed at adapting...
China Launches World’s Largest 600 MW Compressed-Air Energy Storage Plant
HUAI'AN, China — China activated the world's largest compressed-air energy storage facility on January 26, 2026, in Jiangsu province, with capacity to supply electricity...
Bessent Rules Out Dollar-Yen Intervention as Currency Drops 1.6%
WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated Wednesday the United States is "absolutely not" intervening in currency markets to strengthen the Japanese yen, sending the currency tumbling...
AWS Exec’s Email Error Exposes Amazon’s 16,000-Job Layoff Plan Early
SEATTLE — Amazon accidentally revealed plans to eliminate 16,000 corporate jobs on Tuesday evening after an internal email intended for Wednesday was sent hours ahead...
MIT Engineers Achieve 99% Accuracy With Heat-Powered Silicon Chips
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed dust-sized porous silicon chips that perform mathematical calculations using waste heat instead...