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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis

The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

© Aaron Wojack for The New York Times

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.
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F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office

OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.

© Aaron Wojack for The New York Times

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI, where a recording device was discovered during a sweep of a conference room, the company said.
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Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate

The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.

© Eric Helgas for The New York Times

Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence model, Opus 5.5, was the first release since the company’s chief executive called for the industry to slow down.
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How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco

The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.

© Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times

Zoox, owned by Amazon, offers free rides in San Francisco, which has become a center for autonomous vehicle experiments.
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What Does $17.1 Billion Mean for Meta?

The Silicon Valley company agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties as part of a landmark settlement with states over social media addiction claims.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Meta’s entire stock value stands at $1.45 trillion. The $17.1 billion penalty is about 1 percent of that.
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Meta to Stand Trial Over Claims It Addicted Children to Social Media

California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

During the trial, to be held in the U.S. District Court of Oakland, Calif., four states are expected to argue that Meta violated federal child privacy and state consumer protection laws.
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