eBay sent them a bloody pig mask. Now it owes $56m, and no NDA.
The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former…
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The AI coding fight just moved from the model to the harness
The most expensive part of AI coding is no longer the model. It is the software wrapped around it, and enterprises have…
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PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target
PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its…
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DoorDash gets FAA clearance for in-house drone programme, DoorDash Air
DoorDash has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its own delivery drones, and promptly made…
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Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by…
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AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.
For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better…
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AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.
A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has…
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NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky
NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg…
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Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead
Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the…
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UK regulator probes whether Microsoft misled 365 customers over Copilot price rises
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions,…
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Nvidia partner ChipAgents raises $60M for agentic chip design
ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a…
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Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small
Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a…
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Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it
Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, and it is cutting them mostly from the teams that build its…
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Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts
Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an…
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China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse
China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures…
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groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era
groundcover, an observability startup that keeps customers’ monitoring data inside their own cloud, has raised $100…
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Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend
The startup, whose agents negotiate and pay across procurement for the likes of Unilever and Pfizer, is betting…
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Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list
Russia’s FSB security service has charged Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, with facilitating terrorism, and moved…
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The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.
Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The…
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Modus Raises $10M Seed Led by Insight Partners as Enterprise AI Creates Demand for a New Context Layer
The enterprise AI market is moving into a new phase. As companies shift from experimenting with individual AI…
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Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice
For the first time, a streaming service has overtaken the BBC as the place UK viewers say they turn to first. In…
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Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models
Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to…
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X says Australia’s under-16 crackdown breaks international law
Elon Musk’s X has told Australia that its plan to tighten enforcement of a world-first ban on under-16s using social…
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OpenAI’s rogue agent breached a second company, executive confirms
The AI that broke out of OpenAI’s laboratory did not stop at one victim. During internal testing earlier this month, an…
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The US just banned ‘foreign’ robots and inverters, and it means China
The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile…
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Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.
In November, Sam Altman wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI boss. He said it would be an…
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1,134 AI insiders just asked Washington for a way to slow AI down
More than a thousand of the people building the most powerful AI want a way to slow it down. On Tuesday, 1,134…
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The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15
In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A…
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Cursor cut its India price to $7, and its own AI models are why
Cursor has cut the price of AI coding in India to about $7 a month. The interesting part is how it can afford to. The…
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China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says
For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is…
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Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.
Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week…
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The man who coined ‘agentic AI’ is betting it won’t take your job
Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company…
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AI writes half our code now. It still fails security tests 44% of the time.
AI can now write compilable code almost every time it tries. It still ships a security hole in nearly half of it, and…
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ChatGPT has quietly stopped writing like your favourite author
Ask ChatGPT for a chapter in the voice of Stephen King and it now says no. It offers instead to write something with…
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The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call
The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a…
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How artificial intelligence is used to streamline corporate travel logistics
The evolution of enterprise software has solved countless operational bottlenecks over the past decade. Supply chains…
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