Chinese profits rose 25.7%. The CSI 300 fell 9% and the Star 50 fell 29%
Profits at onshore-listed Chinese companies rose 25.7% in the three months to June, the fastest in nearly five years…
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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already…
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AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed…
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AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point…
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Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI’s most capable model
Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced…
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Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla certified itself, and now has a federal investigation.
Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how…
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The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing…
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Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and leaves the rest to kids
Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to…
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Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald…
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Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive…
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Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European…
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Google brings its Lyria 3.5 music model to every Gemini user
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images…
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OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with a model that sometimes tries to evade oversight
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s…
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ChargePoint CEO says growth is starting to accelerate after a 70% stock surge
ChargePoint shares rose more than 70% after second-quarter revenue of $116.1M beat the $105.2M expected and losses came…
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Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in May. London’s first robotaxi service did not use it.
Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the…
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Export controls went after China’s chips. They never touched the capital, and Moonshot is reportedly seeking $5bn.
Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5bn in a Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year, Bloomberg…
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Apple’s new chief executive is a hardware engineer. His first lineup answers a software problem with a hinge.
Apple holds its “Surprise and Shine” event on 9 September, the first product launch run by John Ternus, who became…
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G42 gave up Huawei, then let Washington watch its data centres. Majority US ownership is reportedly next.
Executives at Abu Dhabi’s G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies,…
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Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.
Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a…
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Volkswagen plans 50,000 more job cuts, taking the total to 100,000
Volkswagen’s supervisory board unanimously approved cutting a further 50,000 jobs, bringing planned reductions to…
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Electric cars outsold every other powertrain in Britain last month
Battery-electric cars took a record 29.8% share of UK registrations in August, outselling every other powertrain,…
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The nonprofit that investigated OpenAI’s rogue agents runs on a $36m grant. The next wave of that money is waiting on the AI IPOs.
American philanthropy is about to absorb something in the region of $40bn a year in new annual spending from AI wealth,…
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Global payroll has an infrastructure problem, and it is finally getting attention
Cross-border payroll moves more than 200 billion dollars a year, and until recently, nobody was building shared…
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A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.
YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts…
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Wacker weighs closing Tennessee polysilicon plant after Trump tariffs, Reuters reports
A German chemicals company is considering closing the American plant that Washington’s new polysilicon tariffs were…
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OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say
A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed…
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US safety regulator says it is evaluating Tesla’s Cybercab rollout
America’s road safety regulator is looking into Tesla’s newest robotaxi just a day after it began carrying passengers.…
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Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen
Europe is getting a factory for quantum chips rather than another quantum computer. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, owned…
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DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data centre, according to Bloomberg. Neither the size…
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South Korea confirms chip investment talks with US as tariff threat grows
South Korea negotiated tariff protection for its chipmakers, and Washington is pressing for American factories anyway.…
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BASF sues Apple over Face ID patents in Texas federal court
The world’s largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday,…
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Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe
A proprietary trading firm has just signed one of the largest AI cloud contracts of the year. Jane Street is committing…
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OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks
OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The…
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OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company…
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New Jersey just legalised cheap plug-in balcony solar panels
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and…
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s…
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