Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

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