OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth…
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Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 million views as student protests sweep India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with…
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Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion spanning memory…
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Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera
A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera…
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Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced
Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested two Volkswagen engineers in San Jose, California, and charged them with insider…
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Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and…
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Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the…
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10 Platforms for AI Visibility and Link Building in 2026
Millions now choose products through ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews appear in nearly half of…
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Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that…
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Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent
Intel posted second-quarter 2026 revenue of more than $16 billion, a 25 percent jump from a year earlier and the…
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SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears
SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28…
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Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led
Amazon is retreating from the race to build the smartest AI. This week it closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco team…
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Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn
Stripe wants a foothold in AI, and it is willing to pay dearly for it. The payments company is in talks to buy…
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World Foundation raises $52 million in token sale as proof-of-human demand accelerates
World Foundation has raised $52 million through a locked token sale to expand the reach of World ID, its…
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The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open…
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Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after…
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OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every…
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Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings
Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them…
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Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.
Anthropic wants you to talk to Claude, and then watch it act. On Thursday it upgraded Claude’s voice mode to run on its…
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Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.
Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the…
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Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite its…
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Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It…
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Meta is banning the ‘pervert glasses’ creeps from Instagram
Meta has a nickname problem. Its Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned an ugly label: “pervert glasses”. Men wear them to…
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A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.
Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump…
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A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.
This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill…
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A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down
Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down…
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Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts
On July 23, President Donald Trump stood in the White House and promised that electricity bills for American families…
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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA
On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services…
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SoftBank is reportedly weighing a deal for Swiss robotics startup Gravis
Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s…
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Wise shares tumble after US regulator rejects its trust bank charter bid
Shares in Wise fell about 10% on Friday after the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency declined the…
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TechEx Europe 2026 returns to Amsterdam, bringing together Europe’s enterprise technology leaders
TechEx Europe will take place on 19–20th October 2026 at the RAI, Amsterdam, bringing together more than 8,000…
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Vietnam wants under-16s to keep their accounts, just not post on them
Vietnam has settled on an unusual way to police children online. Under a draft decree unveiled this week, users under…
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AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots
AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new,…
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Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains
Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to…
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Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn
The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could…
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Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging
Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and…
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