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Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in...
Wholly AI-generated songs are no longer accepted in Australia. This August, ABC News reported that t...
The detrimental cost of scaling too fast
AI has crossed a decisive threshold in the enterprise. McKinsey’s 2026 global survey found that 44% ...
Revolut handed customer passports to scammers usin...
Revolut gave sensitive customer information to criminals who requested it from what appeared to be a...
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and...
OpenAI will not go public this year, and Sam Altman says the reason is safety. “I would say not 2026...
Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B Spa...
Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth rough...
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI ...
David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antit...
Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghos...
Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulle...
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you ...
Marvel's mishandling of its Blade reboot will likely go down as one of the studio's biggest mistakes...
Apple’s new phones are here
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Your car is selling your data
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weig...
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite m...
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodie...
China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide l...
Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roads...
Tesla says it will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October, the first firm date since it sh...
OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in...
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disrupt...
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with F...
StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter...
Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 20...
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down,...
OpenAI has said it will match Anthropic’s safety commitment, a day after Dario Amodei asked the indu...
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5b...
Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shar...
The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Ch...
The US transportation secretary has told Ford to cut ties with CATL and Geely, objecting among other...
Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight...
Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracle’s earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for n...
Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quali...
Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, better known as Sylvan Esso, have been bringing their low-key electro...
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must...
Dario Amodei has called on the AI industry to slow the pace at which it improves models, committing ...
Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-pa...
LG responds to TV spying allegations
Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some ala...
Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the constru...
Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smoo...
Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto ...
Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max
The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and s...
Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it ha...
Oracle has raised the cost of its 2026 restructuring by $700M to about $2.8B, covering actions it sa...
China’s AI industry is moving from models to agent...
China’s AI industry is moving from competing on models to deploying agents, and the China Telecom Re...
Nvidia may put $10bn into Anthropic’s IPO, more th...
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much...
OpenAI just wants to win
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in math...
Li Auto will launch in Europe this quarter, six ye...
Li Auto will show the Li 6 at next month’s Paris Motor Show and start selling in Europe in the fourt...
Lawmaker demands federal action after 43 Tesla dri...
A US congressman has asked federal regulators what they intend to do about Tesla drivers who sleep w...
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in...
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake poli...
Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a n...
Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to...
China’s car exports beat last year’s record with f...
China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating ...
Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is runnin...
Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Eur...
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra d...
OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is strain...
Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CE...
Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated a...
ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK governmen...
Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buy...
AI agents are learning to spend money. Who will ha...
AI is already changing how people find and buy things online, comparing prices, narrowing down optio...
We unfolded the iPhone Duo
You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone ...
The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most power...
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social ...
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybers...
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handfu...
Microsoft’s head of comms is leaving after almost ...
Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer. In an internal note ...
Meta may have leaked the first look at its slim ‘P...
Just a couple of weeks before Meta Connect starts on September 23rd, UploadVR posted images seemingl...
Where to preorder the Apple AirPods 5
The Apple AirPods 5 are bringing active noise cancellation to the masses, and they're now available ...
Anime reaction YouTubers are at war with copyright...
On September 6th, YouTuber Nicholas Light posted a video to one of his channels that made it seem li...
The wireless earbuds with unbeatable call quality ...
Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro came out swinging in May with incredible call quality, something tha...
Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posin...
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed ...
