Winners & losers: Once again, AI is blamed for something else besides failing to cure cancer. A class-action lawsuit in California accuses gas-station operators of using the tech to increase prices at the pump by as much as 30 cents a gallon in some areas.

The class action claims the defendants, which include BP, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons, violated

What just happened? Meta has paused an internal artificial intelligence training effort after a data exposure event raised concerns about how employee information was handled within the company. The incident raises questions about whether Meta's data governance practices are keeping pace with its AI ambitions.

The issue centers on the Model Capability Initiative, a program Meta rolled out in April to improve its AI systems by collecting detailed workplace activity data from employees. The

In context: Universal Flash Storage is a solid-state storage standard developed by JEDEC in collaboration with major memory industry players. Designed as a successor to eMMC storage and external SD cards, UFS has evolved to deliver performance levels that rival those of some PC storage solutions. Samsung is now looking to leverage

Amazon Prime Day is back, running from June 23 through June 26. While this year's event isn't overflowing with must-buy discounts, there are still a handful of genuinely worthwhile deals on laptops, OLED gaming monitors, SSDs, processors, headphones, and other tech we've tested, reviewed, or would happily recommend. We've done the digging so you

What we know so far: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a probe into a Tesla crash in Katy, Texas, where a Model 3 slammed into a home on June 19. According to sheriff's officials, the Tesla Model 3 veered off the road at a high rate of speed, crossed a yard and driveway, and crashed into a brick home, killing a woman inside.

According to the

In brief: Cloudflare is working with the makers of Chrome , Edge , and Firefox on a new way for websites to tell whether incoming traffic is legitimate – without resorting to the usual mix of CAPTCHAs, logins, and extra tracking. The system is called Private Access Control Tokens, or PACT, and it arrives at a time when bots have surpassed human traffic online.

Cloudflare says it's developing the protocol with Mozilla

In brief: SK Hynix nearly went bankrupt two decades ago, and its share price had barely moved before last year. However, the company is now one of the leading manufacturers of a core component of the AI boom. Over the past few weeks, an unprecedented stock rally has propelled the chipmaker past Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company – depending on which numbers are used.

SK Hynix's stock

A hot potato: As tech executives' narrative around AI-related job losses becomes one of "things aren't that bad" and even "what job losses?" Oracle has reduced its workforce by 21,000 people this fiscal year while acknowledging that AI played a big role in the cuts.

The eliminations led to $1.8 billion in severance payments and other restructuring costs for Oracle,