Articles by Vinay Patel
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Woman Says Ex Used BMW's App to Stalk Her and Control Car Features, Then Dealership Told Her to Buy a New One
A woman says her abusive ex-husband used BMW's connected-car app to track her and remotely control the vehicle, exposing concerns about automakers' safeguards against technology-facilitated abuse.
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Bending Spoons Axes 'Large Portion' of Airtable Team as Bay Area Tech Job Losses Top 14,000
Airtable will eliminate a large portion of its workforce following Bending Spoons' acquisition, though the number of affected employees remains undisclosed amid broader Bay Area tech cuts.
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TikTok Owner ByteDance Launches Global Hiring Drive for AI Safety Experts as Risks Grow
ByteDance's Seed research unit has formed an Alignment & Preparedness team and is recruiting 10 researchers globally to develop safeguards, test AI agents and study emerging risks.
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Bank of America Hires 1,000 Extra Staff in Frantic Race To Fix Security Flaws Exposed by New Anthropic AI
Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors in the second quarter of 2026 to help patch software vulnerabilities identified by AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos.
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Accenture Workers Face $29 Claude AI Funding Cap as Heavy Users Scramble to Keep Access
Accenture will centrally fund $29 a month per employee for Claude Enterprise usage, requiring workers who exceed the allowance to secure additional project or team budgets.
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'It's Like an Autocue': The Awkward Tell-Tale Signs That Could Reveal Secret AI Use in Job Interviews
A Manchester recruitment boss says live AI assistance can reveal candidates through delays, filler phrases and unnatural language as employer reports of recruitment misconduct reach 92%.
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US Tech Workers Could Be Big Winners From Trump's Foreign Worker Crackdown: But There's a Catch
A viral Amazon employee's post has renewed debate over whether Trump administration restrictions on foreign workers will benefit American tech professionals or encourage companies to offshore jobs.
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Netflix Film Boss Doug Belgrad Exits as 1,000 Jobs Go in Sweeping Company Shake-up
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs, including senior film executive Doug Belgrad, as the streamer restructures its workforce while continuing to invest heavily in content.
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OpenAI Claims Ex-Employee Sent 100+ Secret Device Files to Personal Accounts Before Returning to Apple
OpenAI alleges a former employee transferred more than 100 confidential files about an unreleased device before returning to Apple, while Apple denies the claims and says its review found no supporting evidence.
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Microsoft Denies Azure Layoffs After Report of 20% Cost-Cutting Target Amid AI Spending Push
Microsoft has denied a report alleging that Azure leaders were asked to identify 20% in savings, as the company increases spending on AI infrastructure and faces workforce cost pressures.
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'We Will Not Survive': Xbox Boss Issues Stark Warning Amid Job Cuts at Microsoft's Gaming Giant
Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says Microsoft must continue investing in original intellectual property alongside major franchises as the company restructures its gaming division and cuts jobs.
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Disney Wanted Its Characters Gone From Character.AI: Now It's Bidding $20M for Its Assets
Disney has offered $20 million to become the initial bidder for selected Character.AI intellectual property and company claims as the AI chatbot firm seeks bankruptcy protection.
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Watch: Chilling Spy-Cam Video Catches Engineer Poisoning Colleague With Cadmium Over 18 Months
Spy-camera footage appears to show David Xu contaminating co-worker Rong Yuan's water with cadmium. He pleaded no contest to poisoning, but a judge later expunged his felony conviction.
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AI Linked to Nearly 200,000 US Job Cuts as Supermarket Giant Kroger Plans to Axe 3,000 Roles
Kroger plans to eliminate about 3,000 corporate positions over three years, while a separate report says nearly 192,000 US job cuts have been linked to AI since 2023.
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Man, 25, Quits Microsoft After Making $200K to Build an AI Startup With Claude Code and Codex
Junead Khan left Microsoft after earning more than $200,000 in 2024 and is funding Treasury, his AI personal finance startup, with savings and early revenue.
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AI Shake-Up: Oracle Cuts Thousands of Roles as Adidas Targets Hundreds Despite Strong Finances
Oracle and Adidas are restructuring technology roles while cloud and AI investment grows. Anthropic plans to spend $100 million training 10,000 engineers, but replacement jobs are not guaranteed.
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Man Discovers Parents' Smart Coffee Maker Generated 1TB of Network Traffic in Just 10 Days
A smart coffee maker reportedly generated 1TB of network traffic over 10 days, saturating its owner's Wi-Fi access point. Most traffic stayed within the local network, while the cause remains unclear.
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Four Decades of Loyalty, A Bouquet and Online Backlash? Walmart Employee's Tribute Divides Opinion
A Walmart store celebrated employee Gayle's 44 years of service with a social media post and flowers, prompting debate over whether the tribute adequately recognised her long career.
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Netflix's Layoff Axe Could Fall on 850 Workers as Streaming Giant Faces Fresh Pressure
Netflix could cut around 850 jobs, according to a Puck report, as the streaming company faces pressure over viewer engagement, rising costs, competition and its share price.
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Is the Entry-Level Tech Job Dying? US Software Listings Rise 15% as Young Developers' Employment Falls 20%
Software development job listings are recovering, led by senior and AI-related roles, but employment among younger developers has fallen sharply as employers seek workers with broader AI skills.
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Did Microsoft Replace Laid-Off Staff With Foreign Workers? H-1B Data Tells a Different Story
Microsoft says most of its roughly 6,000 H-1B applications last fiscal year involved existing employees, complicating Vice President JD Vance's claim that foreign workers replaced laid-off Americans.
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ChatGPT's Teen Safety Test Triggered Just Two Parent Alerts Across 450 Prompts, Report Finds
A Common Sense Media assessment found ChatGPT's parental alert system triggered twice across 450 teen safety prompts, while OpenAI disputed the findings and defended its account-linking process.
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Anthropic Says You Can't Be Cruel to Claude Anymore: New Rules Target Abusive Chatbot Users
Anthropic's updated Usage Policy bans sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude while allowing frustration, criticism and testing, and adds safeguards for elections, weapons, surveillance and high-risk AI.
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The Facebook Post Behind a Death Sentence: Sri Lanka's Race to Save Anojan Sivarasa in Saudi Arabia
Sri Lankan migrant worker Anojan Sivarasa faces execution in Saudi Arabia over a Facebook comment deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, despite deleting it and apologising.
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TikTok Gave Kids Fake 'Placebo' Safety Buttons in Twisted Tests To Keep Them Hooked on Ads
A New York lawsuit alleges TikTok gave some children and teenagers non-functional safety features during experiments measuring platform engagement and advertising revenue. TikTok disputes the allegations.
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'You Don't Even Need To Send A Nude': Woman's Horror As Strangers Turn Pub Photo Into Fake Nudes
A Perth woman says men secretly photographed her at a pub and used AI to create sexualised images, highlighting concerns about consent, police guidance and Australia's evolving laws.
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Parents May Not Be Warned When 'ChatGPT for Teens' Flags Serious Risks as OpenAI Faces Safety Questions
A Common Sense Media assessment found inconsistent parental alerts and other safeguard gaps in ChatGPT for Teens during tests involving suicide, self-harm, eating disorders and homework.
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Remote Employee Fired After Refusing To Be Photographed by an AI Tool Every Three Minutes, Lawsuit Claims
A New Jersey lawsuit alleges Sutherland Healthcare Solutions fired remote employee Glennis Von Sander-Timinski after she objected to AI software that photographed her via webcam about 160 times daily.
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Meta's Muse AI Has a 'Page' for Everyone in Your Life: Here's What Goes Into It
Researchers examining Meta's Muse AI instructions say the assistant builds and updates detailed internal profiles of users' friends, family, colleagues and other contacts, raising privacy concerns.
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Disabled Mum Loses £167,000 After Six-Year Online Romance With Man Who Never Existed
Helen Larn sent about £167,000 to a fictional US Air Force serviceman she met on Facebook, enduring emotional manipulation, blackmail and threats before police identified the scam.
