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General Motors will pay $220 million to 36 states to settle allegations that it illegally sold private driving behavior and location information to data brokers.

Reddit will no longer allow logged out users or those without an account to view content on its platform, CEO Steve Huffman shared in an update. The change, which the company said will initially be tested in “select markets” outside the US, comes as the company says that search traffic has declined significantly.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has reportedly been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in an estimated $6.3 billion loss, The New York Times reported. The company promised to cover all losses but has suspended withdrawals. The value of the theft would be a record if accurate, easily eclipsing a $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit…

The automaker sold driver data to insurance companies without permission from 2016 through 2024.

U.S. investors and companies that put money into artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, hypersonic systems, high-performance computing, or biotechnology firms in six countries would face new federal notification requirements or outright deal bans under a rule Treasury proposed Monday. ​

Waymo will begin testing autonomous Toyota bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker to provide electric vehicles for robotaxi operations in international markets, including the U.K.

Google had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Credit: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg

The site’s data is reportedly intact, but the cause of the outage is still unknown.

The age-old warning “don’t share your passwords with anyone” applies to AI agents, too.

VRChat has published a support post explaining the results from a survey of users regarding artificial intelligence on the platform. Despite 95 percent of its respondents stating that they want some form of label to designate AI usage, the company said that at this time, it will not be implementing any tags in that vein.…