Some of Google's top AI leaders are leaving their roles, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis taking another role at Alphabet and Jeff Dean leaving.

Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with AI chief Demis Hassabis leaving his main managerial role and several leaders ​of its Gemini model,

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

As you’ve heard me say many times, I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health,” Hassabis says in a message to staff. “It’

The company is trying to win public support as Apple claims 11 additional OpenAI staffers may have also illegally used the iPhone maker's trade secrets.

Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged ​confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case.

Apple asked the court for a preliminary injunction, and OpenAI followed up by alleging the iPhone maker was sloppy about security.

OpenAI has come out swinging in its legal battle with Apple—and brought receipts. The AI lab published a response—along with a tranche of private emails and messages—pushing back on some of the claims in Apple’s lawsuit filed last month that accused OpenAI,

In a new documentary about the history of the platform, owners Tim and Chris Vanderhook, said they would like to relaunch MySpace.

The old network is growing again as people flee the algorithm. It’s a reminder of something every business gave up.

Myspace comeback talk got real this week after the brothers who own the platform confirmed in a new documentary that they intend to relaunch it, then declined to say when. […] The post Myspace Owners Say a Relaunch Is Coming,

Y2K nostalgia is in full swing -- and soon, 2000s social media site Myspace may be making a full comeback to the World Wide Web. TechRadar editor-at-large Lance Ulanoff shares his reaction.

Apple's Private Relay feature is supposed to ensure that no website or even the company itself can see your IP address when you browse the web on Safari. But according to security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk,

Apple's paid Safari protection feature that promises to keep your IP masked doesn't always work, according to security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry. It turns out iCloud Private Relay can expose your real IP to websites that use or pretend to use passkeys.

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

Apple is investigating a WebKit flaw where passkey requests bypass iCloud Private Relay and expose real IP addresses.

Anthropic said on Wednesday it is building an in-house team to design ​custom chips for its Claude AI models, ‌confirming an earlier Reuters report, as the startup responds to a shortage of chips needed to power ​and develop more advanced AI systems.

The AI startup is hiring engineers to design custom chips for its Claude AI model, according to a job listing and a company statement.

Anthropic custom AI chip team confirmed August 5, 2026 -- the company will co-design silicon and Claude models together, targeting roughly 50% cuts in per-token inference costs. AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD hardware partnerships remain central to the multi-chip strategy while proprietary silicon enters development.

Anthropic just confirmed today that it has begun assembling its own dedicated team to design custom chips for its AI, Claude. Until now, the company relied entirely on chips made by other tech giants,

Apple’s decision to briefly remove Telegram from the App Store has been blamed on a blackmailer duping the company into executing a takedown, according to Telegram’s CEO. “Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting,

Telegram was subject to a "takedown extortionist" who planted AI-modified child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to get Apple to remove the app from the App Store, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said today. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store for about 40 minutes on Monday night after discovering CSAM,

Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after illegal content was reported in a public group. Pavel Durov said a takedown extortionist used AI-modified material and an edited old message to trigger the action.

Pavel Durov has doubled down on Telegram’s position after Apple removed the platform from its App Store earlier this week following a review that revealed offensive material in the app. Telegram, used by more than a billion people,