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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T-Mobile’s Gopalan turns to home internet and AI after a 25% slide
T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days…
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Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits
Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now…
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Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world
A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and…
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The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility
According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the…
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The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)
How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard…
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Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies
Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The…
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A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work
Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as…
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Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker…
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Coworker.ai launches OM2, an organizational memory layer promising to slash enterprise AI token burn by 9x
Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To…
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From One Corridor to Many: Indonesia as the Blueprint for Asia’s Stablecoin Future
Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and…
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Belkin brings semi-solid-state batteries to a $70 power bank
The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The…
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Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone
A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No…
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Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules
Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can…
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Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way
Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One…
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Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency, brought by a former CMA official
Apple is facing a £2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the…
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The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport
An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts,…
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