Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week
Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them…
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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked
X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking…
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The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI
The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White…
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Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499
Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel…
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Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start
Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028,…
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UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade
UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a…
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Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses
Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a…
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Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes
Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are…
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The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor
Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent…
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Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real
Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five…
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A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries
A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion…
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Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn
Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to…
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Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.
The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not…
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Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice
Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as…
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Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies
Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which…
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The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time
Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one…
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An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot
An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI…
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OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”
OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a…
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Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda
Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre…
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The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model
Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare…
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TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most
A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very…
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A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya
Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and…
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Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search
Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an…
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Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily
Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public…
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ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service…
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Apple’s Phil Schiller hands over App Store and Events to Eddy Cue
Phil Schiller has stepped down from running Apple’s App Store and its product events, Bloomberg reported, keeping his…
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The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?
The Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use…
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LG Energy Solution signs a 10-year Arkansas lithium deal starting 2029
LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium…
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Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and…
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Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law
Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New…
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EU employment law 2026 moved the burden of proof to you
If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three…
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Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees
Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was…
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Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027
Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From…
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Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI
Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then…
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ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA
The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the…
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Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029
Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the…
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