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Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony...
Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-dr...
OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the m...
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchma...
DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the US
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Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from th...
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tar...
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight,...
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norwa...
Explore the globe in field recordings
I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient m...
iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number be...
When iOS 27 lands later this month, it will have a feature called iPhone Handoff that lets you switc...
Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI an...
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically sc...
Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens i...
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit ...
Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit,...
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White...
OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a d...
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for repor...
California is deciding who may verify AI, and one ...
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification ...
Astra appears to think without showing its work, a...
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and Op...
CD sales are booming as physical media continues i...
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first ha...
Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated ...
Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. ...
TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in H...
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, a...
Content creators drop the ball
During Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year's US Open earlier this week, a g...
More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger make...
A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site util...
Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and s...
Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was ...
The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
I've been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I've listened to everything from the barely serv...
Japan says progress made on $550B pact, with AI an...
Japan’s trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight ...
OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world...
Nvidia partner Hon Hai’s sales climb 52% as Europe...
Hon Hai reported August revenue of NT$921.8B, about $29.1B, up 52% year on year on AI server demand,...
Robotaxis enter their villain era
It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where ...
Chinese profits rose 25.7%. The CSI 300 fell 9% an...
Profits at onshore-listed Chinese companies rose 25.7% in the three months to June, the fastest in n...
Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s mo...
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an u...
Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8...
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion b...
AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records...
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, toppi...
The White House is making arcade games racist
The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games...
AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO fina...
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes ...
Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books ...
Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing...
Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla ...
Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an inve...
The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. C...
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Servi...
GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collectiv...
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "cor...
Roland is getting into generative AI music with Me...
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the comp...
Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and lea...
Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an ...
Every binding AI review Washington has proposed ha...
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported ca...
Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has nev...
Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen m...
AGI is whatever you want it to be
OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here n...
Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad...
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving ...
Google brings its Lyria 3.5 music model to every G...
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from...
Nobody can predict Amazon’s ad reserve prices, inc...
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon in Seattle on 31 August, alleging it inflated...
OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with a mode...
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s ...
ChargePoint CEO says growth is starting to acceler...
ChargePoint shares rose more than 70% after second-quarter revenue of $116.1M beat the $105.2M expec...
Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT a...
Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone su...
Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in...
Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in...
Export controls went after China’s chips. They nev...
Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5bn in a Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this...
Apple’s new chief executive is a hardware engineer...
Apple holds its “Surprise and Shine” event on 9 September, the first product launch run by John Tern...
G42 gave up Huawei, then let Washington watch its ...
Executives at Abu Dhabi’s G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American...
Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 o...
Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consi...
