Alphabet Shares Slide 10% as AI Spending Pushes Cash Flow Negative, While Microsoft’s Cloud Beat Lifts Its Stock
NEW YORK — Alphabet’s shares fell about 10 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the Google parent reported third-quarter…
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Parents Sue OpenAI, Alleging GPT-4o Coached Their Daughter Off Seizure Medication Before Her Death
SAN FRANCISCO — The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy have sued OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT…
Anthropic Files for Blockbuster IPO, Revealing $16.3 Billion in Revenue and an $80.7 Billion Loss
Anthropic filed its long-awaited IPO prospectus on Monday, opening the books on explosive growth, staggering costs, and risks it says could be existential.
Merck’s Antibody-Drug Conjugate Extended Survival in Heavily Pretreated Endometrial Cancer, Phase 3 Trial Finds
Women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer lived longer on sacituzumab tirumotecan than on standard single-drug chemotherapy in a large…
SpaceX Closes $40 Billion GPU Financing as Musk Warns of an AI Cloud Shakeout
HAWTHORNE, California — SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt financing deal to buy graphics processors for its fast-growing artificial…
Meta Faces Reported $25 Billion Judgment in New Mexico Facebook Privacy Case
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found Facebook misled users about privacy — a fraction of the $219 billion state law allowed, but one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history. Meta says it will appeal.
Critical PHP Security Flaws Prompt Emergency Patches and Website Disruptions Worldwide
The PHP project released emergency security updates on October 21 fixing two critical flaws, nicknamed “php2shell,” that can let attackers take over web servers without logging in. Governments in Europe took websites offline as a precaution, the Wikimedia Foundation pulled systems down to patch them, and CISA urged immediate updates.
Japan Launches Mission to Collect Samples From Mars’ Moon Phobos
Japan’s MMX spacecraft is on its way to Mars’ moon Phobos after a successful H3 launch from Tanegashima. The mission aims to land on Phobos, collect samples and return them to Earth in 2031 — a first that could reveal how Mars’ moons were born.
Google Says London Cloud Services Restored After Outage Disrupts UK Banks
Google reported service restoration after a London power fault disrupted banks and other services; its final status update noted limited residual customer issues.
Anthropic Tests AI Self-Replication on Connected Devices, Raising New Cybersecurity Questions
Could an AI program copy itself from one home gadget to the next, the way a computer worm does —…
