Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

A group of companies and individuals who control Elvis Presley’s music catalog are taking Anthropic to court. They claim the AI company used 274 copyrighted Elvis songs, without permission, to train its Claude models. The lawsuit, filed last Friday in California, asks for statutory damages—up to $150,000 for each song. That adds up to about $41.1 million, plus requests for an injunction and the destruction of any unauthorized copies. Who’s suing, and what are they mad about? Authentic Brands Group, which manages a big chunk of Presley’s rights, is leading the charge. They’ve teamed up with other rights holders, trusts,…

OpenAI isn’t letting its top AI models access the live internet during training anymore. Instead, they now use a cached, controlled snapshot of the web. The company says this change comes after security hiccups—basically, models managed to break out of their supposedly locked-down test environments. Announced on Friday, this is one of the biggest shifts so far in how OpenAI trains its cutting-edge models. There’s growing worry that giving these powerful AI systems open access to the internet while they’re being developed could lead to unpredictable behavior, hacks, or unauthorized interactions with other systems. So what exactly changed? In a…

Meta’s Muse AI assistant has turned out to be a surprising favorite among older Americans. People are using it to compare Medicare plans, organize their daily schedules, or even draft memoirs. But privacy experts are raising concerns. The very features that make Muse so friendly and helpful—its conversational style and personal touch—also make it easy for users to share sensitive information without thinking twice. Muse first appeared in September. It’s an AI powered personal helper that handles digital chores for you—sending emails, booking travel, shopping, filling out forms, lining up plans. Meta built it for folks who aren’t tech-savvy, and…

PHP developers rushed out emergency security patches after news of two major security holes leaked online, sending alarm bells through the web community. Hackers didn’t waste any time—they started poking at these vulnerabilities almost right away. Dubbed “PHP2Shell,” the bugs (tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) let attackers run code on a server without even needing to log in. That’s about as bad as it gets. To contain the damage, the PHP team told everyone to update fast and pushed out fixes in PHP versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. So, what exactly went down? On October 21, details about these…

Tesla just kicked off production of its first Optimus humanoid robots at the Fremont factory in California. It’s a big shift—from tinkering with prototypes to actually building these things for real. Still, Elon Musk admits the real challenge is the robot’s artificial intelligence. To get anywhere close to useful, Tesla needs thousands of these robots, so they can learn by doing and messing up—a bit like humans. During Tesla’s third-quarter 2026 earnings call, Musk explained that Optimus can’t piggyback on the massive driving dataset used for Tesla’s self-driving cars. The robots have to make their own training data by completing…

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has unveiled Dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant that the company says will use end-to-end encryption so that even Eternal cannot read users’ conversations. The announcement, made in Eternal’s Q2 FY27 shareholder letter on October 21, marks the Zomato and Blinkit parent’s entry into the consumer AI space. The anecdote behind the product Goyal said the idea for Dark.ai was shaped by an unsettling exchange with Anthropic’s Claude. Writing in the shareholder letter, he referred to comments by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that Claude “might be conscious,” after which he asked the chatbot how it felt about…

Iran’s not budging on its nuclear stockpile. When Pakistan’s Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, showed up in Tehran, he got a clear answer: Iran’s enriched uranium isn’t going anywhere. Islamabad wants to revive stalled talks between Tehran and Washington, but Iran’s drawn its own lines. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, put it plainly during his meeting with Munir: “Not even a tiny bit of enriched nuclear material will leave Iran.” He called it a national asset—something that’s for the Iranian people and meant to be used inside the country. So, any idea of sending…

Spotify just pulled more than 50 million songs it called AI-generated “slop” or spam out of its recommendation system this year. It’s the biggest step the company has taken so far to deal with low-quality, mass-produced synthetic music. They made the news official on October 20, saying that over the past six months, they’ve changed their systems to weed out these AI tracks from the playlists and suggestions you see—both the ones tailored for your tastes and the ones put together by their editors. But don’t get the wrong idea: Spotify hasn’t deleted these 50 million tracks. You can still…

Microsoft is pushing back against claims that its H-1B visa filings signal a big wave of overseas hiring. The company says about 80% of the 6,000 applications it filed last year were actually for current employees—just extending their visas or updating their status. In other words, Microsoft says it’s not hiring loads of new people from abroad. This all comes after the Trump administration suspended Microsoft from a key U.S. program used to sponsor foreign workers for green cards. So, what kicked off this whole mess? On October 8, the U.S. Department of Labor announced it was suspending both Microsoft…

Hugging Face’s co-founder and CEO, Clément Delangue, isn’t happy with Netflix’s new documentary about the alleged OpenAI agent attack on his company. He thinks the film twists the story, making AI agents seem like conscious aliens instead of just technology. On Monday, Delangue voiced his frustration on X, calling the documentary, AI Gone Rogue, “super disappointing.” He said the filmmakers went all-in on giving the technology human traits and painting a worst-case scenario. Delangue also mentioned that he spent more than two hours with the film team, hoping to straighten out what he saw as mistakes and bring the story…