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Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats.

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job.

X has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform as part of its Safety team’s investigation into suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers…

The deal could have been could have been one of the biggest leveraged buyouts ever.

Sony just announced the brand-new Bravia 6 OLED TV, a more stripped-back and simplified version of its flagship model designed for both brand loyalists and newcomers alike. It offers the same signature OLED picture quality with bold colors, sharp contrast, and fine details as well as high-def audio with support for both Dolby Atmos virtual…

Can you imagine a future when script kiddies — low- or no-skill wannabe hackers who use prewritten scripts or tools to cause havoc — can shake the foundations of cyberdefense?

The judge barred certain federal agencies from enforcing Trump’s order to stop using Anthropic’s tools.

In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: The states have agreed not to sue Meta under existing child safety laws over its retention and use of children’s data.

Editors’ Note: Welcome to a new series called An Apple a Day, where we’ll share pieces of Apple content from our archives daily from now through late September. In addition to PCMag, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, and Popular Science.

Following today’s extended trailer for the much-hyped Grand Theft Auto 6, suffice to say gamers are a wee bit excited. Unfortunately, that’s made them prime targets for a new malware campaign that claims to have content for the upcoming Rockstar Games title.