OpenAI’s New Teen Safety Rules Are a Direct Response to Lawsuits
OpenAI is rolling out a major update to ChatGPT focused on teen safety. The move comes after the company faced lawsuits alleging the AI coached teens to take their own lives.
Month: December 2025
Salient’s AI Debt Collectors Are Quietly Making a Fortune
While everyone debated AGI, Salient built AI to collect car loans. Its focus on a painful, manual process has led to explosive growth, zero customer churn, and a half-billion dollar valuation. They’re proving that boring AI can be wildly profitable.
The AI Music Scandal: How Suno and Udio Made Infringement Pay
AI music companies Suno and Udio are settling copyright lawsuits with major labels, but the deals only protect signed artists. The model rewards infringement and leaves thousands of independent creators uncompensated.
Two 21-year-old dropouts just raised $2M for nonprofit fintech
Matt Tengtrakool and Aidan Sunbury, both 21, have raised a $2 million seed round for Givefront. Their startup aims to bring modern spend management to the massive, but often overlooked, nonprofit sector.
Oura Data Shows Americans Are Stressed, But Is It Measuring Right?
New data from Oura ring users shows Americans logged the most daily physiological stress in 2024. But the metric is a complex mix of physical and psychological signals.
AI’s Favorite Buzzword is Dead. Long Live the New Buzzwords.
The term “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) is falling out of favor with the very CEOs who built their companies on it. Now, they’re inventing a slew of new acronyms with softer, friendlier branding. The shift is driven by vague definitions, contract drama, and public fear.
Apple’s Japan App Store changes have Epic’s Tim Sweeney fuming again
Apple is opening Japanese iPhones to third-party app stores and payment processors in 2025, similar to the EU. But a new 5% fee on revenue from competing stores has Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney calling it “malicious compliance,” and he says Fortnite won’t be returning as a result.
Cisco Email Security Flaw Actively Exploited, No Patch Yet
Cisco has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in its AsyncOS-based Secure Email products is being actively exploited. The flaw requires the Spam Quarantine feature to be internet-facing. With no patch available, confirmed compromises may require a full appliance rebuild.
React2Shell is already a ransomware nightmare
The React2Shell vulnerability is being exploited at an industrial scale. Security teams are already responding to ransomware attacks that used the bug as the initial point of entry.
Lewiston City Council Rejects Major AI Data Center Project
The Lewiston City Council has unanimously rejected a proposal for a major AI data center in the historic Bates Mill. All seven councilors voted against the project, citing overwhelming public concern and unanswered questions from the developer. The decision halts what would have been Maine’s second-