Full Disk Access can expose users’ files, messages, mail and browsing history, making the permission increasingly sensitive as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Apple plans additional controls and says users should understand the scope of access they grant, but it has not yet shared specifics about the changes.
According to Unite.AI, Apple says some developers use the permission in ways that could endanger users.
Amazon's community funding will support education, workforce training and energy efficiency projects over five years in places hosting its data centers. The commitment comes amid growing local resistance to the company's infrastructure expansion. AWS CEO Matt Garman says that opposition threatens the country's AI lead, according to GeekWire.
According to Unite.AI, Built Together adds funding beyond Amazon's existing community spending.
AWS has pledged water positivity by 2030, according to The Economic Times.
Amazon also pledged to stop using nondisclosure agreements, according to The Information.
Clayton was confirmed as director of national intelligence this summer and has held the position since July, according to Quartz. He could retain that job while also overseeing AI, Quartz reports.
Anthropic’s training program will serve engineers at solution providers and customer organizations, with consulting firms among its partners. The company aims to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027.
CEO David Ellison announced the combined company's name in a social media post ahead of the roughly $110 billion deal's expected completion next week. The two companies' streaming services, HBO Max and Paramount+, are also set to merge, according to a report from 9to5Mac.
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, about 2% fewer than a year earlier, when buyers rushed to use expiring federal EV tax credits. The total still topped analyst forecasts of roughly 461,000 to 464,000.
Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. digital-asset bank, has cut 17% of jobs, CEO Nathan McCauley told employees this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Google has raised the starting price of the Pixel 10a to $599, a $100 increase, about seven months after the phone launched. Publishers attribute the change to rising DRAM and NAND memory costs.
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
Nvidia shares topped their May peak on Friday, according to Decrypt, ending a two-month selloff that erased more than $1 trillion in value, Bloomberg reports.
Broadcom’s Wall Street syndicate is starting to gather $60 billion of fresh AI chip financing to benefit Anthropic PBC and other companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials familiar with the matter, an extraordinary breach that highlights the growing physical risks from cyberattacks.
A three-week-old artificial-intelligence model called Jev has set Silicon Valley circles abuzz with discussions around alternatives to large language models, and is already sparking copycats.
Lockheed Martin is taking a model-agnostic approach to AI, using 55 different large language models across its business while applying the technology to everything from internal operations to autonomous weapons systems.
Pope Leo XIV told artists and curators in Vatican City on Friday that art differs in kind from machine output built on statistical analysis of countless existing images.
The health tech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks.