People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.| Iain Martin
Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.| Forbes
These small schools offer top academics, plus greater access to faculty and more protection from federal funding cuts, than at big research universities.| Emma Whitford
Security researchers found that Max, which Russia will require to be pre-installed on all phones, is designed to track users, confirming fears the app will be used for surveillance.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
xAI published conversations with Grok and made them searchable on Google, including a plan to assassinate Elon Musk and instructions for making fentanyl and bombs.| Forbes
A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it works, it could upend the fraught world of political polling.| Richard Nieva
When OpenAI released its new flagship GPT-5, it said it would discontinue its older 4o model, popular for its warm writing style. Devoted users were devastated before OpenAI quickly reversed course.| Forbes
Antitrust pressure killed Adobe's $20 billion takeover for design startup Figma. Its cofounder Dylan Field floated the business on NYSE at nearly the same valuation.| Iain Martin
Since the rise of generative AI, many have feared the toll it would take on the livelihood of human workers. Now CEOs are admitting AI’s impact and layoffs are starting to ramp up.| Forbes
International students have become the lifeblood of these 16 private nonprofit colleges. Trump’s crackdown on student visas threatens their existence.| Forbes
The ride-haling giant, which unveiled a data-labeling platform late last year, thinks it can out-muscle the smaller rivals jockeying for position after Scale’s tie-up with Meta.| Richard Nieva
The AI startup’s biggest clients, which include OpenAI and Google, won’t likely want to trust their data to a company almost half owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire.| Forbes
A former intelligence operative in Israel’s military warned of Iran’s cyber capabilities. But the U.S.’s cyber agency may struggle to respond.| Thomas Fox-Brewster
AI study aid chatbots for teen users provided detailed recipes for drugs, dangerous dieting advice, and tips on “pickup artistry” in tests conducted by Forbes.| Forbes
Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now?| Richard Nieva
The traditional May 1 decision deadline has come and gone, but it’s not too late to find a college match—here are dozens of excellent schools still seeking students for the upcoming fall semester.| Emma Whitford
Meta is recruiting former national security officials, months after opening up its Llama AI model for military use.| Forbes
Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million in fresh funding from top VC firms.| Forbes
As the Trump administration cracks down arbitrarily on student visas and xenophobic rhetoric scares away potential foreign students, agencies specializing in recruiting foreign students are in peril.| Forbes
The president has frozen federal research funding for a host of American colleges and universities—even issuing specific demands of some top schools in exchange for federal dollars. These 39 institutions have the wherewithal to join Harvard in its resistance to Trump’s assault.| Emma Whitford
Founded by early Facebook investor Ali Partovi, Neo has made big bets on founders of hotshot AI startups Pika and Anysphere, the company behind coding tool Cursor. With $320 million in new funding, it's aiming to cement its status as the Ivy League of startup boot camps.| Forbes
DeepSeek’s meteoric rise put the spotlight on artificial intelligence from China. Here are the other buzzy Chinese AI companies to watch.| Forbes
While the Trump administration continues its assault on elite colleges like Columbia and Harvard, smaller, lesser known institutions that have thrived in part by attracting students from outside the United States gird themselves for an uncertain future.| Forbes
As AI models get more complex, so do the tasks carried out by humans to train them. It’s given Scale a new focus on U.S.-based labor.| Forbes
The Forbes Top Creators list features popular Instagrammers, YouTubers, TikToks, and other digital creators who are shaping content, influence, and social media trends.| Forbes
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.| Forbes
Binghamton University isn’t on the radar for most applicants outside of New York State. But with a new advanced battery and energy tech research push and thriving schools of nursing and pharmacy, it should be.| Forbes
The Bolt founder claimed a group of investors had signed off on the company’s chaotic $450 million raise, but some said they hadn’t. Now, BlackRock and other investors have moved to stall the round.| Forbes
The billionaire cofounder of payments startup Bolt Financial is suing the developer of his previously undisclosed crypto crowdfunding platform Movement, claiming he stole millions of dollars.| Forbes
Helsing built a $4.5 billion business on a pledge to transform Europe’s militaries with software, not hardware.| Forbes
In hundreds of groups across the social media app, women with unwanted pregnancies turn to one another for pills and herbal remedies. Many say they are getting scammed instead.| Forbes
Led by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, 8VC employs two children of alleged Kremlin allies on its investment team.| Forbes
Google shrunk the team that has helped police save lives and investigate major crimes, even as it promised the DOJ it would keep it adequately staffed.| Forbes
After Jacob Helberg rallied support for the TikTok ban bill, the former Democratic fundraiser has become one of Silicon Valley’s conduits to former president Donald Trump.| Forbes
JC Btaiche, the 24-year-old CEO of Fuse, has raised $20 million and signed on Iran’s former top nuclear scientist and former Pentagon officials to solve fusion.| Forbes
These Scammers Used Deepfakes In A Massive ‘Free Trump Swag’ Swindle| Forbes
Ethan Thornton’s vision for Mach Industries wooed investors, but he has been hamstrung by technical challenges, safety hazards and a cavalier approach to leadership.| Forbes
Before she was Connecticut’s First Lady, Midas lister Annie Lamont was making early bets on healthtech — and reaping big returns. Four decades into investing, she’s reinventing herself again for the AI era.| Forbes
The Chinese e-commerce sites ship the equivalent of 88 Boeing 777 freighters of cargo worldwide every day.| Forbes
American users also won’t get search results for Xi Jinping, Uyghur, CCP, Palestine and Israel, among many other terms.| Forbes
The leaders of the AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta say they are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in their AI systems so they can be fixed.| Forbes
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.| Forbes
Notion cofounder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and aggressive on AI.| Forbes
Flock became a law enforcement juggernaut with its AI-powered license plate readers. But officials in multiple states told Forbes Flock had violated state laws designed to guarantee driver safety.| Forbes
Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one.| Forbes
There are multiple ways the U.S. government might attempt to ban TikTok over national security concerns. But TikTok will almost certainly challenge a ban in court.| Forbes
Musk was told that withholding Starlink satellite internet service in Taiwan could put SpaceX in breach of its “contractual obligations with the U.S. government.”| Forbes
AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade. Now she's preparing for battle in the coming AI revolution—and she expects to keep winning.| Forbes
Students who’ve turned to ChatGPT for help writing their school applications are turning back to people to make that work sound more human—and schools just can’t keep up.| Forbes
The deal was one of several challenges for the federal business of the $7.3 billion startup, whose CEO Alexandr Wang has become an advocate of national security amid the threat of China.| Forbes
The websites and policies for new apps Cici AI, ChitChop, Coze, and BagelBell don’t mention that they were made by ByteDance.| Forbes
As the U.S. restricts chip sales to the region over China concerns, California-based Blaize is planning to go public via a SPAC backed by Middle Eastern investors.| Forbes
A host of startups are building robots and stuffed toys that can have full-fledged conversations with children, thanks to generative AI.| Forbes
More states are now giving money to families who pull their kids out of public school, creating a pot that can be spent on online learning and microschool programs.| Forbes
As AI-generated pornography has exploded, human porn stars say the new technology has been used to make them do or say things without their permission.| Forbes
Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application—are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action.| Forbes
Some retailers are using artificial intelligence to churn out hundreds of product descriptions that used to take weeks to write.| Forbes