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Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold
Player is captain of NHL’s Ottawa Senators Tkachuk expresses regret over Trump joke US ice hockey star Brady Tkachuk has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows him insulting Canadi
Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers
The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.
Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms
Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’ Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition techn
Mistral AI inks a deal with global consulting giant Accenture
Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Encord raises $60M to challenge Scale AI in physical AI data infrastructure
Physical AI is moving from labs to large-scale use in self-driving cars, delivery drones, and manufacturing robots. This…
Nvidia's blowout earnings report disappoints Wall Street as stock sinks 5%
"The odds were stacked against them," Adam Phillips of EP Wealth Advisors told CNBC.
Instagram to alert parents if teens search for self-harm and suicide content
Safety campaigners say Meta is "passing the buck" with its new feature for parents using Instagram's teen supervision tools.
EBay laying off about 800 roles, or 6% of its workforce
The job cuts are occurring across the company, and are a result of its push to focus on "strategic priorities," eBay said.
Perplexity Computer: The OpenClaw killer we’ve waited for?
Perplexity has launched Computer, an agentic platform that orchestrates 19 AI models across multi-step tasks like research, content creation, and…
Nvidia reports earnings and guidance beat as AI boom pushes data center revenue up 75%
Nvidia has been the best performer on Wall Street this year among tech's megacap companies.
They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S.
The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM
Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the p
Can CUDIS dethrone Oura? This AI ring promises no subs, athlete-grade metrics
CUDIS has launched a new version of its smart health ring, featuring an AI-based coaching system to help…
How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed
Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information, lack plot structure and can be cognitively overwhelming — all of which could affect young c
‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily new
Google launches Nano Banana 2, updating its viral AI image generator
Nano Banana 2 is Google's newest version of its Gemini AI image generator, with increased speed and real-time sourcing.
Oska Health raises €11M: AI coaches for Europe’s chronic care gap
In Europe’s chronic-care landscape, where long-term conditions quietly drain patient wellbeing and national budgets, Oska Health is pushing…
Read AI launches an email-based ‘digital twin’ to help you with schedules and answers
Read AI is launching Ada, which can reply with your availability and extract answers from the company knowledge base and the web.
Seraphim’s $100M bet on orbit: Industrialising space at scale
Seraphim Space’s latest early-stage fund has surged past its $100 million target, marking a defining moment for the…
Bumble adds AI-powered photo feedback and profile guidance tools
Bumble and other popular dating apps, like Match Group's Tinder and Hinge, have all embraced AI-powered features.
ARIA backs CommonAI’s £50M inference lab to power UK AI scale-ups
The UK’s race to strengthen its technological backbone has taken a turn with a £50 million push that…
Salesforce climbs on earnings beat as company commits $50 billion for buybacks
Salesforce posted accelerating growth and pushed up its long-range revenue target thanks to a recent acquisition.
A.I. Dating Apps Complicate China’s Efforts to Boost Birthrate
As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.
Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation
Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode.
Rolls-Royce boss pushes for UK taxpayer support for new jet engine
Firm, which has announced record profits and £9bn share buyback, has £3bn project for smaller commercial planes The chief executive of Rolls-Royce has pressed ministers for taxpayer support for a new jet engine, on a day
A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source’s funding problem, permanently
A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.
Revolut enters UK stablecoin sandbox, eyes $100B valuation ahead of IPO
Revolut has been selected by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to test stablecoin services inside a regulatory…
C3 AI shares plummet as company cuts 26% of workforce, posts wider loss than expected
Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI sunk after widely missing earnings and announcing layoffs under new CEO Ehikian's restructuring plan.
Rowspace lands $50M from Sequoia, Stripe for AI investment insights
Many investment firms think their key strength is not just having money, but also their experience and knowledge.…
Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode
Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform,
Will Amazon’s $50B OpenAI investment reshape AI infrastructure?
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, but the full amount may…
The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds
The YouTube algorithm is pushing bizarre, often nonsensical A.I.-generated videos targeting children. Our video journalist Arijeta Lajka explains why experts say that these videos could affect their cognitive development
Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI
BBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being ‘scraped and copied’ A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers t
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Plural’s €9.5M bet on Cambridge’s Callosum to break Nvidia’s AI grip
Callosum has secured $10.25 million in new funding to accelerate a radically different approach to AI infrastructure. The…
Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructure The big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI development and deployment
When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?
People are revealing sensitive personal information to A.I. chatbots — including plans to commit violent acts.
The world's biggest sovereign wealth fund is using Anthropic's Claude AI model to screen investments for ethical issues
Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund is reviewing its ethical framework after decisions on U.S. and Israeli companies drew ire from the Trump administration.
WPP to sell assets and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat
Group aims to be ‘simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business’ and achieve £500m of annual savings by 2028 The beleaguered UK advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threat posed by the grow
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook
Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century Clippy Microsoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users open links from Out
A.I. Complicates Old Internet Privacy Risks
Artificial intelligence is convenient and easy to use, but you should think about what you say to the chatbots.
Nvidia earnings, Big Tech's White House visit, protein prices and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So m
Exhibit in Boston’s startup ecosystem at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
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Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs
Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said
Figma partners with OpenAI to bake in support for Codex
Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code.
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise
Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.
Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S.
The requests followed Times reporting that the Department of Homeland Security had sent Meta and other companies subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE.
Nvidia’s Huang says any Pentagon–Anthropic rift is 'not the end of the world'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang weighed in on a conflict between the Defense Department and its strategic partner on Thursday, saying it's “not the end of the world.”
Nvidia’s Quarterly Profit Hits $43 Billion on Strong A.I. Chip Sales
Total profit for the fiscal year was $120 billion, the company said. Three years ago, it was just $4.4 billion.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says markets ‘got it wrong’ on AI threat to software companies
Investors had grown weary that the massive run-up in spending on AI hardware might not be sustainable, stoking fears of a bubble building in the sector.
Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue
Demand for Nvidia chips rose even as the company sets out to create AI products of its own.
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering
Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruse Prolific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering succe
Nvidia quarterly earnings show immunity to AI bubble fears as it cashes in on datacenter boom
Chipmaker’s quarterly earnings surpassed Wall Street’s expectations every quarter for multiple years Nvidia released its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with the chipmaker revealing higher than expected revenues and ext
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing
Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…
Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Will Be Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala
The news came tucked into the second page of a recent news release.
Instagram to start parent alerts for teen suicide, self-harm searches as Meta trials continue
Parents will receive alerts via email, text, WhatsApp or Instagram if their teens are repeatedly searching for "phrases promoting suicide or self-harm."
Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say
Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit Meta ’s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes
Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover
A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.…
Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services
Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’ Ministers have called in Tony Blair’s thinktank and private tech companies to guide them on deploying AI ac
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now
Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’ Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after f
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePas
Why Xbox’s corporate shake-up matters for everyone who plays games
With its longtime figureheads stepping aside, Microsoft’s gaming division faces a pivotal moment, raising questions about whether it can still balance creative ambition with corporate strategy in the age of AI • Do
Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip
So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impression Scientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field and settled a debate
Not even potholes will hold up self-driving cars, UK firm predicts
Wayve says it's confident all cars will one day be autonomous, as it announced more than a £1bn in additional investment.
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution
Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malic
Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show
Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.
Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit
GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing
Shein's elusive boss hails Chinese roots in rare public appearance
His speech follows years of the firm focusing away from China as it moved its headquarters to Singapore.
Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe
It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster Microsoft is "fully cooperating" with a probe by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if
Pentagon Gives Anthropic an Ultimatum Over the Company’s A.I. Model
Anthropic insists on limits on how its technology is used and could be labeled a supply chain risk if it fails to accept the military’s demands.
GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries
No pressure GCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.…
Senator Blumenthal Opens Inquiry Into Iran Transactions on Binance
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to Binance asking about the flow of $1.7 billion from accounts on the crypto exchange to Iranian entities.
AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs
Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes AMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter pla
Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns
Toby Walsh says he despairs at Australian government’s lack of regulation of artificial intelligence Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A l
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions
Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minis
US military leaders pressure Anthropic to bend Claude safeguards
Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield US military leaders including Pete Hegseth , the defense secretary, met with executives from the artific
Nvidia still hasn't sold its U.S.-approved China AI chips — and it’s worried local AI rivals could take over
The U.S. chipmaker has yet to confirm shipments to China despite Washington easing restrictions on exports of advanced chips.
Wayve, an A.I. Driverless Car Start-Up in Europe, Raises $1.2 Billion
The London-based company is building a system that uses artificial intelligence to power autonomous vehicles.
Samsung's S26 gives an advance look at what the Google-powered Apple Siri could do
The Samsung S26 has three separate AI systems with Google's Gemini, Perplexity and its own upgraded Bixby.
US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards
The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse
Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
Discord delays age verification plans after user outcry
Users were unhappy about plans for age verification to require facial or ID scans.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.
Google apologises for Baftas alert to 'see more' on racial slur
Google said the news alert was an error that should not have happened.
Nvidia's forecast points to accelerating growth, as Vera Rubin starts hitting market
In its earnings report, Nvidia gave guidance for the first quarter that sailed past estimates, with growth projected to reach its fastest in a year.
More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teenagers think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.”
Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner
Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting
‘A.I. Literacy’ Is the New Drivers’ Ed at This Newark School
Teachers say they want to equip high school students to drive artificial intelligence, rather than be mere passengers steered by chatbots.
Nvidia keeps the AI party alive with a booming quarter and even better outlook
Nvidia shares weren't moving much in extended trading. But make no mistake, the chipmaker's earnings report was impressive.
The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots
When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the implications could be mind-boggling Name: The accidental hacker. Age: It doesn’t matter how
AI disruption didn't show up in Salesforce results. But the fears are hard to shake
The stock dropped in after-hours trading as investors remained anxious about the potential of AI disrupting traditional enterprise software companies.
The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.
LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
You'll find these days that there's no hiding place Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deano
Anthropic: Claude faces ‘industrial-scale’ AI model distillation
Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000
Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.
‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets
Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack US stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral – and completely spe
Wall Street priced an AI apocalypse in software, but Jim Cramer says reality is less dire
The software sell-off has been overdone, CNBC's Jim Cramer said. But that doesn't mean the stocks will get back to where they once were.
US datacenters face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against AI
New constructions delayed or cancelled, raising questions about US’s ability to expand infrastructure to support boom Cancellations and delays of new US datacenters have increased as the artificial intelligence boom runs
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.
Tech’s politics push at home and abroad
We report from California’s Silicon Valley, where billionaires pour money into midterms, and the AI Impact summit, where India pushes back on ‘AI monopoly’ held by US and China Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week,
HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 pe
Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts | Polly Hudson
AI is already coming for our dignity – tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else? Moan all you like about technology, there’s no denying it’s made friendship easier. I
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends
"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.
How disconnected clouds improve AI data governance
Disconnected clouds aim to improve AI data governance as businesses rethink their infrastructure under tighter regulatory expectations. Ensuring operational continuity in isolated environments has become increasingly vit
Former Alphabet 'moonshot' robotics company Intrinsic is folding into Google
Instrinsic will use Gemini models and Cloud and work closely with Google DeepMind.
Reddit fined £14m for 'concerning' child age check failings
The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win
Deploying agentic finance AI for immediate business ROI
Agentic finance AI improves business efficiency and ROI only when deployed with strict governance and clear return on investment targets. A recent FT Longitude survey of 200 finance leaders across the US, UK, France, and
Taser maker Axon pops nearly 18% as AI boosts demand for its software tools
CEO Rick Smith noted the impact of AI and said Axon is at a "moment unlike anything" he has seen since starting the company.
Basware’s AI agents: From invoicing to ‘100% automated’
Basware has introduced a AI agents in its invoice lifecycle management platform to extend the existing InvoiceAI abilities of the platform. The company positions the agents as a step towards what it calls “Agentic Financ
The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.
Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.
Intel Strikes Deal With a Chip Start-Up Its C.E.O. Invested In
A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman.
Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's th
COBOL modernisation just got an AI shortcut–and the market noticed
It’s an open secret (that is, not many people seem to know) that the institutions keeping the global financial system turnig over run code that is ancient, barely understood, and frighteningly hard to replace. Now, AI is
Welcome to the post-hype crypto market
Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins fac
Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north
Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up.
Podcasts? TV Talk Shows? Netflix Just Hopes They’re Hits.
The podcasts in the streamer’s debut crop, including “The Pete Davidson Show,” have revived metaphysical questions about the definition of the medium.
Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits
The artificial intelligence company has demanded that some guardrails be put in place as it negotiates a contract with the Defense Department.
Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app
Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can w
Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data
The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.
Is crypto growing up? Tether risk, Stripe’s stablecoin play, and the GENIUS Act explained
Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETH Denver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins fa
Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities
Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.
Backed by Anthropic, a Super PAC Group Begins an Ad Blitz in Support of A.I. Regulation
The ads by Public First Action, which started airing on Monday, are part of an escalating political war over artificial intelligence before the midterm elections.
Thrive Capital invested about $1 billion in OpenAI at a $285 billion valuation, source says
The investment was separate from the $100 billion funding round that OpenAI is finalizing, according to a source.
Why has the software sell-off been so extreme? Look to this arcane way to value stocks
Uncertainty around the long-term viability of software business models has major ripple effects on today's stock prices.
AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge
Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year AMD's edgiest Epyc chips are officially getting a Zen 5 refresh with the introduction of its 8005-series processors codenamed Sorano.…
Bill Gates reportedly apologizes, admits to two affairs in candid town hall
Bill Gates "took responsibility for his actions" in a meeting with employees of the Gates Foundation, which had held fundraising discussions with Epstein.
OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier
Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up. OpenAI has managed to make a name for itself with ChatGPT. But if it wants its new enterprise AI product Frontier to succeed, it's goin
Wearable startup CUDIS launches a new health ring line with an AI-fueled ‘coach’
The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.
The public opposition to AI infrastructure is heating up
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies — including bans on new construction.
All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic
AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pen
Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that
But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features hands on Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this ye
PayPal pops nearly 7% on report fintech startup Stripe is weighing an acquisition
PayPal's stock lost nearly a third of its value last year due to slowing growth and competition concerns.
Samsung launches S26 smartphone as sector braces for memory chip crunch
The latest generation of Galaxy phones touts enhanced AI capabilities, but supply chain concerns hang over sector
Gemini can now automate some multi-step tasks on Android
Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google.
OpenAI COO says ads will be ‘an iterative process’
COO Brad Lightcap noted that ads can add to the product experience of users if they are done right. He urged to give OpenAI a few months to see how the company fares in rolling out the product.
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…
OpenClaw creator’s advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve
Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding.
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited
Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'
Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT
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Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the compa
Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training
Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations
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Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia
Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…
Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted
Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…
Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after being a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has de
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DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation
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Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely
As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its
Nvidia’s new AI system Vera Rubin is 10 times more efficient than its predecessor — here’s a first look
CNBC got an exclusive first look at Vera Rubin, Nvidia's next AI system that's due to ship in the second half of the year
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…
Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive
Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passp
Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values
Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…
OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the
Can A.I. Detection Tools Really Spot Fake Images and Videos?
Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.
Nokia and AWS pilot AI automation for real-time 5G network slicing
Telecom networks may soon begin adjusting themselves in real time, as operators test systems that allow AI agents to manage traffic and service quality. AI may soon be making operational decisions. This week, Nokia and A
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
Dude, where's my operating system? Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "O
Why Chile is the latest LATAM country to be caught in a U.S.-China power struggle
The spat comes just days before a Latin American leader's summit in Miami and two weeks before Chile's incoming right-wing government takes over in Santiago.
Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find
And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adver
Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast
Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is b
Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulf
It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding
Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists ar
Workday stock sinks on weak revenue guidance
The results come weeks after Workday said that CEO Carl Eschenbach is stepping down, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri replacing him.
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Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving the company
David Luan, the head of Amazon's artificial general intelligence lab, announced on Tuesday that he will be departing the company at the end of the week.
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…
Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026
Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among
AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patc
How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives
For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP
SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execut
More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before
AI has brought the startup world the rise of companies that instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.
Stripe’s valuation soars 74% to $159 billion
Stripe has conducted another tender offer, where employees sell shares. Investors include Thrive Capital, Coatue, a16z, and Stripe itself.
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With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic
While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.