The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s…
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YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix
YouTube is offering some of its largest creators multi-million-dollar packages to keep their work off Netflix,…
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Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client
Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single…
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Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether they carry news or not
Australia’s parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing a five-year argument that began when…
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Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table
Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the…
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A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed
Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school…
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China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you
China’s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give a lost tourist directions to the nearest metro…
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Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares
Revolut has asked its shareholders to let Nik Storonsky borrow up to $250mn against his stake in the company, five…
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Meta’s first witness told a jury the problem was Mark Zuckerberg’s culture
Arturo Béjar took the stand in Oakland on Wednesday and told a federal jury that the reason Meta could never fix its…
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Trump hosts crypto executives as the SEC proposes its friendliest rules yet
The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American…
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Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’
Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are…
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Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has…
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Avec’s latest AI feature reads your email so you don’t miss the due date
Avec has added a feature that scans an email for a deadline when you swipe left, then resurfaces the message on the…
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Five days after buying Cursor for $60bn, SpaceX tried to buy Cognition
SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage.…
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Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools
Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving…
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A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal
Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a…
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Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for businesses
Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the assistant into a…
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Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver
Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. From Wednesday,…
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Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China paying the steepest
Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders,…
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Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more
Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending across hundreds of…
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Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge
Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Series D round. The…
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Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a custom-chip deal
Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will…
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Flock built an AI tool that lets police search for people by how they drive
The surveillance firm Flock Safety has told the public for years that its cameras “cannot recognize, identify, or track…
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Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10
Tesla asked Nevada regulators for permission to run up to 5,000 robotaxis across Las Vegas. It was granted 10. The…
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OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring
OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two…
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A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide
Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a…
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China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time
The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a…
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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres
Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money…
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Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value…
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The $2.1 Billion “worst idea ever”: How Gamma built a profitable empire with 50 people
Grant Lee still remembers the investor’s verdict. “Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea he had ever heard”.…
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Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some
Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It…
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Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger
Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the…
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Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish…
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Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI
Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it…
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Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter
OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI…
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India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders
Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of…
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