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Google avoids ad tech breakup: the antitrust ruling, the numbers, the open questions

Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ordered Google to change how its advertising auctions run but declined to force a sale of its ad exchange, rejecting all three structural remedies the Department of Justice had requested in United States v. Google LLC, No. 1:23-cv-108.

Open weights are not open source: the fight over a label

Open-weight language models are shipping faster than the rules that describe them. The Open Source Initiative says weights alone expose only "a fraction of the information required for full accountability," and critics say the label is being stretched.

A release date is not a training cutoff: tracking how stale 20 AI models already are

Ten of 20 current AI models carry a training cutoff their lab actually publishes, according to a tracker published on 16 September. The gap between shipping date and cutoff is the number most launch coverage never mentions.

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: OpenAI's containment failure and the money question

Helion's D-T First, Realta's Direct Conversion: Private Fusion Posts Two Results

NASA spent $30 million to save Swift. Two reaction wheels ended the rescue

Ukraine says Russian drones are hitting data centres, and the power and cooling chain is the target

IBM's 1970s Automated Fab Hit One Day Per Chip. Modern Fabs Take Weeks

The Used EV Battery Question: What 80,000 Tests and 30,000 Drivers Actually Show

Patients in the training set are easy to pick out, and privacy audits do not catch it

Wearables turn homes into sleep labs, but accuracy limits persist

Sports Analytics Is Eating Its Own Data Pipeline

Humanoid robots move onto factory floors, and unions move to strike

Search traffic to publishers is collapsing, and opting out of Google is now on the table

Search traffic to publishers is falling and the fixes are still being tested

How online disinformation networks work, from Southport riots to black PR firms

AI job split: entry-level squeeze in games and graduate hiring, boom in data centre trades

Europe's Night Trains Are Back, but the Tunnel Bill Is Still Coming

AI and the job market: what the data actually shows