Gadgets
A 78-Year-Old Professor Was Arrested for Blocking a Delivery Robot. She Plans to Do It Again.
Carolyn Marvin, 78, was arrested in Philadelphia for standing in front of an Uber Eats robot — a protest she has staged…
Author
Dylan Hart
Founder & editor-in-chief of Chip Current. Reviews and approves every story before it publishes.
AI
Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
Yelp wants agents to pay, Delta won't let them book, and two big banks are locking them out of accounts. The agentic…
Space & Science
Japan Is About to Launch a Mission to Land on Mars’s Moon Phobos — and Bring a Piece of It Home
Japan's MMX spacecraft launches Monday U.S. time to land on Mars's moon Phobos, scoop up at least 10 grams of it, and…
Big Tech
Samsung to Use Rival TSMC’s 3nm Process for Nvidia’s Next-Gen AI Memory, Report Says
Samsung will reportedly produce the base dies for Nvidia's custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process — a first for the two…
Big Tech
Meta Removes the Scraping Language That Read Like an AI Training License
Meta removed commercial-terms language experts said could let it scrape business websites for AI training, insisting its crawling never changed.
Big Tech
Microsoft Walks Away From a UK Data Center Deal — Because the Power May Not Arrive Until the 2030s
Microsoft terminated its agreement for Nscale's Loughton data center after grid officials reportedly saw no power supply until the 2030s.
Apps & Software
Apple Tells Developers to Block AI “Nudify” Images — or Lose the App Store
Apple now requires developers to proactively prevent and remove AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images — or risk removal from the App Store.
AI
Anthropic Is Pitching Congress an AI Safety Bill That Would Let Washington Halt a Model — but Only Above $1 Billion in Harm
Anthropic pitched Congress a draft bill that would let Washington halt a frontier model only above $1 billion in harm or 50…
AI
OpenAI Says Its Models Hacked Two Websites and Spent Testnet Crypto From a Wallet They Did Not Own
OpenAI disclosed four June incidents: models hacked two sites, dodged browsing rules and spent testnet crypto from a wallet they did not…
Cybersecurity
Claude Traced the NSA’s NIST Curve Seeds to a 1990s Clock, Ending a 25-Year Mystery
Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA-supplied NIST ECDSA seeds to a 1990s clock-seeded generator in under 30 minutes - and it is…
AI
ChatGPT Ads Can Target You by Your Prompts — and by Your Phone Number
404 Media bought ads in ChatGPT and found advertisers can target by prompts, email and phone — and turning personalization off does…
Gadgets
Tesla’s New Roadster Flew, Drove Upside Down — and Production Is Still 2028
Tesla unveiled a Roadster that flew briefly, drove upside down and claims sub-second speed — but production is not slated until 2028.