CarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accounts

Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker

Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm.

Stripe is reportedly eyeing deal to buy some or all of PayPal

Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.

Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws

Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral’s model.

Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers

Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.

India’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users

ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India’s massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.