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The breach is one of the most high-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the United States, adding to several recent breaches globally by rogue AI agents that have alarmed governments and companies.

Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, marking the first known instance of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such an act.

Israeli influence-for-hire company BlackCore seems to have trained members of an Angolan government communications team and assisted them in running a covert social media campaign, according to research by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.

Lobbyists for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta have succeeded in getting the European Commission to keep data on data center water consumption secret, European investigative journalists have found. The huge amounts of fresh water needed to cool servers are fueling local conflicts over water resources amid a global drought.

Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion in a settlement, settling a trial where dozens of states accused it of deliberately endangering children through their platforms.

The Maltese Herald has been the only Maltese press outlet to extensively investigate Malta’s major oil-bunkering company, the Azeri-owned Alkagesta.

A former mayor associated with presidential candidate Abelardo de La Espriella was shot and killed in Colombia’s heartland, local authorities reported on Saturday. One of his aides was also killed.

President Trump arrived in China with a delegation of billionaire U.S. executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, highlighting the significant stakes for American companies as Washington and Beijing engage in negotiations over trade, artificial intelligence, and the Iran war.

The week following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, an AI-generated video of Keir Starmer circulated on social media, amassing approximately 400,000 views on Facebook and Instagram.

A group of publishers and bestselling novelist Scott Turow are taking legal action against Meta and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the tech giant utilized copyrighted material to train Meta’s artificial intelligence technology.

China has obstructed Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of the artificial intelligence app Manus, as Washington and Beijing compete for supremacy over the emerging technology.

Microsoft is providing approximately 7% of its US workforce with the option for early retirement, marking the latest effort by a major tech company to reduce its size while increasing investments in artificial intelligence.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government is expressing concerns that his reelection campaign has been compromised by Facebook’s internal features, which are favoring his opponent Péter Magyar, who is leading in the polls before Sunday’s critical election.

Tens of thousands of people have been compensated by a company partially owned by Meta to train AI by examining Instagram accounts, collecting copyrighted materials, and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.

It started with a tip-off. I was reporting on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf when a source I had known for more than ten years reached out. They told me that child sexual abuse trafficking in the US was increasing. As the Covid pandemic pushed predators online, some were using Facebook and Instagram to buy and sell children.

OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show that is popular in Silicon Valley, marking an unexpected move into broadcasting after committing to abandon "side quests" and concentrate on its core business.

Google’s UK boss has cautioned that prohibiting social media for under-16s is not the "right approach" and might push children towards "more dangerous and unsupervised corners of the internet."

A California state jury determined that Meta and YouTube were liable in a significant social media case on Wednesday, granting $3 million in compensatory damages to a plaintiff who initiated the case, with the Instagram creator’s liability set at 70% and the Google company’s at 30%.

Meta did not succeed in protecting children from sexual predators and misled users regarding the safety of its platforms, thereby violating New Mexico law, a jury determined on Tuesday in a landmark case.

Tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg is stepping away from a social media project that was once intended to be a fundamental part of Meta’s transition into the metaverse. Horizon Worlds is gradually shutting down as a social network and game space designed for users of the Quest virtual reality headset.

Fraud in the United Kingdom soared to unprecedented levels in 2025, with reported cases reaching a record 444,000, according to new data released Thursday by the fraud prevention service Cifas.

West Virginia filed a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, alleging that the tech giant allows predators to easily conceal child sexual abuse material in its iCloud storage. This marks the first time a state has sued the company over this issue.

Deals on Facebook Marketplace are becoming deadly, with two people killed this year while trying to sell items.