Amazon and Twitch Face Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Training on Streamer Content

More than 500 towns have restricted new builds while councils limit public comment as violent threats against local officials rise sharply.

Neowin summary points to broken Defender scans after the latest update, a redesigned context menu in Windows 11, and GTA 6 leaks among the week's stories.

Sony emailed PlayStation users to restate that digital purchases grant only a license, not ownership, days before a boycott over the planned end of new discs in 2028.

Take-Two seeks account records from the two platforms after repeated attempts to remove leaked footage failed to stop further dumps.

Psychonauts studio Double Fine now controls the rights to every game it released under prior Xbox ownership.

Apple's command-line disk image tool loses support status in the next major macOS release, according to developer reports shared on Hacker News.

Nvidia has informed major buyers that servers built around its artificial intelligence chips will carry price increases exceeding 15 percent in many cases, driven by higher memory costs.

An Engadget analysis spells out why Level 5 remains out of reach even as robotaxis expand in select cities.

OpenAI now urges California lawmakers to strengthen SB 53 after previously opposing the measure.

WorkOS now lets apps publish an auth.md file so autonomous agents can complete registration and receive scoped credentials instead of abandoning human login flows.

New EU-mandated disclosures show the payment represented 40 percent of Apple's worldwide total of $43 billion.

Former Intel board member and National Academy of Engineering president Tsu-Jae King Liu appeared on Bloomberg to discuss semiconductors and the power requirements of current AI systems.

A Chinese regulator has ordered fixes for two separate issues affecting roughly three million Tesla vehicles, most of which can be addressed through software.

Dan Luu's post on performance optimization reaches the Hacker News front page with 256 points and 186 comments.

A city in Inner Mongolia now hosts a growing share of the data centers that support China’s expanding artificial intelligence sector, driven by low-cost power and available land.

ITG's chief financial officer described the fiber and communications firm as the "picks and shovels" provider for data center connectivity needs after its July IPO.

OneDrive now lets users start a new Markdown file from the same menu that already offered Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Apple is reducing staff in its Siri and Vision Pro groups, including immersive video and gaming efforts, to shift resources toward new devices and artificial intelligence.

A Google blog post states that full-stack AI development divides into five layers and claims the structure helps everyday users trace how models reach them, yet supplies none of the layer names or supporting detail.

Electrical contractors and HVAC engineers in communities outside tech hubs are asking whether promised AI infrastructure spending will hold once funding and demand prove uncertain.