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Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details.
The Saudi national was reportedly close to fleeing to Saudi Arabia. Abdulrahman Alfozan's wife and son left the U.S. after his arrest, with tickets paid for by a Saudi military official.
China's economy accelerated in quarter
China says its economy grew 4.5% for the July-September quarter from a year ago. That moves the country closer to meeting its annual growth target as the year nears its end.
The better-than-expected official data issued Monday accelerated from the 4.3% year-on-year growth recorded in April-June, which was the slowest expansion in more than three years.
Anthropic commits 5% of stock to 'public benefit'
Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a new "public benefit" fund, with the amount potentially increasing as its shares grow in value. It said Sunday that the shares will go to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company.
CEO Dario Amodei and the company's five other cofounders have already pledged that they will donate 80% of their wealth. They established Anthropic as a public benefit corporation, a designation that for-profit companies select to balance financial goals and social impact. Anthropic is planning a massive initial public offering as soon as November.
Nvidia CEO urges manufacturers to use AI
Nvidia's Jensen Huang is urging German manufacturing companies to combine their expertise in physical machines with artificial intelligence to, as he put it, "re-engineer" the economy.
CEO Huang, whose company designs computer chips vital to the developing AI sector, appeared at an investment forum in Berlin alongside Chancellor Friedrich Merz to urge the country's mid-size industrial companies to seize the opportunity presented by the new technology.
Longtime CNN anchor leaving network
Christiane Amanpour will be leaving CNN after 43 years. The network's longtime anchor plans to scale back her daily show, "Amanpour," on CNN International to once a week starting in 2027.
She will end her show in May and leave the network the following month.
Amanpour, 68, will also end her PBS show at year's end. She will continue her podcast, "The Ex Files," with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin.
Israeli spyware used to hack Serbian protesters
A digital rights group says spyware from an Israeli company targeted the phone of the head dean of Belgrade University. The dean has been a key figure in protests against Serbia's leader, Aleksandar Vucic.
The Balkan country faces a tense election this weekend, seen as a showdown between the student movement and Vucic's party. In September, groups reported that 14 activists and students had their phones hacked with spyware, including Pegasus.
Consumer apprehension about AI price tools rises
U.S. consumers are uneasy about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting prices. Digital price tags are replacing paper ones in grocery aisles.
Artificial intelligence tools help businesses decide what to charge by predicting how customers might respond. Terms like "dynamic pricing" and "surveillance pricing" are stirring up anger and anxiety on social media. Much of the concern focuses on whether customer data is getting used to give different people different prices for the same product.