Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030
Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which…
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DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale
DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes…
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OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product
“We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will…
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OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI
“Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,”…
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A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better
Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain’s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel…
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Geely’s new EV charger hits 2.25 megawatts
Geely has revealed a fifth-generation charging system peaking at 2,250 kW, which it says takes new Lynk & Co and Zeekr…
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Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe
“Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems…
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Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio
“Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static…
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Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier
Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published “The Future of Digital Wealth 2026” report. The main…
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Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship
“Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen…
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Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick
“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,”…
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Top mathematicians will advise OpenAI on releasing its AI maths results
“We are currently facing the very specific challenge of advising OpenAI on how to coordinate the release of a large…
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YouTube will let you build your own homepage feeds with AI prompts
“We pride ourselves on the fact that because we’ve created a home for creators, it has created all these other amazing…
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OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine
“Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their…
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ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports
“A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant…
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Upwind acquires Aegis as cybersecurity firm builds new AI Security Labs
The cybersecurity industry is increasingly focused on how artificial intelligence can reshape both defensive technology…
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Why effective AI communication starts with the recipient
I don’t know about you, but when I read something I can tell was clearly produced by a large language model, it puts me…
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Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance
Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models.…
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Burnham says the UK is building an AI defence partnership with the US
Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected…
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Tekever hits a $6.4bn valuation and plans acquisitions with its new round
The fund raise is precisely designed to support that growth, not only organically, developing new technology, but…
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Mozilla puts up posters criticising Musk and Zuckerberg across New York
The Mozilla Foundation has begun putting up posters across New York criticizing tech billionaires, including Mark…
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Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera
As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be…
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AI-native patent firm Fearn launches to take on the billable hour
A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees.…
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Volkswagen becomes the first US volume brand to offer in-car gaming
Volkswagen of America, Inc. is introducing N-Dream’s AirConsole in-car gaming platform on select model year 2027…
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Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips
The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use…
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Meta expected to show camera-free smart glasses at Connect as privacy backlash grows
Meta built its smart glasses business on a camera. At its Connect conference on Wednesday, it is expected to show a…
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Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces
France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus…
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UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise
The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition…
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FBI investigating claims that ShinyHunters stole data on its agents
During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival…
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Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries
OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical…
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AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance
Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information…
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Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports
If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an…
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Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026
Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its…
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Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative…
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F13 raises $5M pre-seed to build an AI model for precise vector graphics
F13, an AI company that trains models to generate vector graphics, has come out of stealth with a $5M pre-seed round…
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Activision will make the next Halo game as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs
First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central…
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