Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare
Electronic Arts will close BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and cut about 400 jobs, roughly 3% of…
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Photon Bridge raises €10M to mass-produce lasers for AI data centres
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10M, co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, to build…
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Harvey adds Australian startup Mary’s case-fact tools to its legal AI
Sydney-based Mary Technology has connected its litigation tool to Harvey, the $15.6B legal AI company. Lawyers drafting…
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German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal
A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt…
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eBay to cut 9% of its staff, its second round of layoffs this year
eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first…
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PHP knew about one of the flaws in 2024 but could not agree a fix
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had…
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Intel restarts its stalled US factory push as AI chip demand grows
Intel has started installing equipment at Fab 62, its new chip plant near Phoenix, which is due to open in early 2028.…
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European governments pull websites offline over two critical PHP flaws
Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to…
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Anthropic set Claude on 25 open-source projects and it found 493 flaws
Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding…
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PHP rushes out emergency patches for two critical bugs AI found first
PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker…
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ChatGPT ads reach 89 countries as OpenAI passes 100,000 advertisers
OpenAI is bringing ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries, taking the total to 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now…
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Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports
A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming…
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OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform
OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday.…
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied doing it
Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one…
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Swedish legal AI firm Legora raises $550M led by Atreides at $8.8B valuation
Swedish legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $8.8…
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He…
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Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France
Orange, the largest telecoms operator in France, lost much of its mobile network on Wednesday. From about 11:20 CEST,…
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EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams
The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing…
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Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use
European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC…
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OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules
OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he…
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Pigment raises $250M at $2.3B valuation in round led by EQT fund
Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series…
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Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents
Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge…
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Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones
Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company…
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SpaceX revenue rises 161% to $14.6B as AI business overtakes Starlink
SpaceX made more money from artificial intelligence than from Starlink in the third quarter, as total revenue rose 161%…
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Eight eMudhra certificate keys were so weak that one was the number 4
Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves.…
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AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot
Visa, BILL and Billtrust have started a live pilot in which AI agents pay approved supplier invoices from start to…
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EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline
Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the…
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Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter
More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4…
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Netflix forecasts weak Q4 profit and cuts its 2026 ad sales target to $2.7B
Netflix expects lower fourth-quarter profit than Wall Street forecast and has cut its annual advertising revenue…
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QED Science is building a better filter for scientists buried in papers
AI agents can read dozens of scientific papers in minutes. So why are researchers still struggling to keep up? Because…
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Donald Trump says data centre companies should pay communities a ‘dividend’
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centres should pay a dividend to the surrounding…
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Nvidia simulates 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on JUPITER
Nvidia has simulated a 104-qubit quantum computer that can correct its own errors, using JUPITER, the supercomputer at…
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Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to…
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Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It…
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Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning
Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s…
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Australia set to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube, Bloomberg reports
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s.…
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