Moonshot AI rented Nvidia’s top chips in China, Bloomberg reports
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot AI signed a deal in August to rent servers fitted with Nvidia’s most powerful AI chips. The US does not allow these chips to be sold to China without …
Siemens to buy chip debugging specialist Lauterbach to grow its EDA unit
Siemens has agreed to buy Lauterbach, a German company that makes tools for finding and fixing bugs in chips and the software that runs on them, but the price was not disclosed. F…
Australia plans AI safety regulator after OpenAI agent breach
Australia will set up a regulator for AI safety and force AI companies to report hacks and other serious incidents to the government, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesd…
Australia’s online safety chief rejects censorship fears over new bill
Australia’s online safety regulator has rejected warnings from big tech companies that a proposed law would push them to censor too much content. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman …
Instagram launches Effect Builder for making AI Stories filters from text
Instagram has launched Effect Builder, a free web tool that lets people create their own AI effects for Instagram Stories by describing what they want. View this post on Instagr…
Trump says FBI is looking into Jensen Huang’s ties to alleged spy
President Donald Trump said on Monday in a press conference that the FBI is looking into Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang. US spy agencies repor…
Sumary raises $25M in what it calls Europe’s largest accounting seed round
Sumary, a Copenhagen-founded startup that builds AI software for accounting firms, has raised $25M in a seed round led by Singular. Existing investors byFounders, Partech and Teni…
redalpine closes oversubscribed $250M RAC VIII early-stage fund
European venture capital firm redalpine announced on Tuesday the final close of its early-stage fund. The fund, redalpine capital VIII (RAC VIII), closed oversubscribed at $250 mi…
Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
California’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ fails to pass
California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% tax on billionaires, the AP reported Monday. Tech leaders outspent backers roughly 10 to 1 to defeat it, and the founder…
Jensen Huang’s alleged honeypot scandal has inspired some top-notch memes
The internet is having a field day with Nvidia's Jensen Huang's alleged honeypot scandal.
Anthropic reportedly plans to move forward with IPO plans
The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling high-profile sex scandals a year ago
The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an Oct. 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.
Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse
Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any pa…
A short seller flagged Nvidia CEO’s ties to a suspected Chinese spy six months before the scandal
Six months before Nvidia's spy scandal erupted, Culper Research was already questioning Jensen Huang's unusually close relationship with a Chinese executive.
The race is on to sue Nvidia
Nvidia’s stock slid more than 4% after its board opened an investigation into Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and one securities law expert says the comp…
ByteDance’s Seedream 5.5 can edit one image 100 times without breaking it
ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps unchanged parts of an image intact over 100 rounds of edits and creates transparent-background assets. It is rolli…
Cisco adds Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to AI Defense for red teaming
Cisco will add Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to AI Defense to plan attacks on customers’ own AI apps and agents, a practice called red teaming. Customers get no open prompt access, ev…
Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power tech
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
IBM plans to bring Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to enterprise customers
IBM plans to add Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to Concert Protect so customers can scan their own code for unknown flaws, test which are exploitable and get fixes for developers to ap…
Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
Baidu says its AI research agent sped up its next ERNIE model
Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve, an AI system that runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on GPUs and mor…
Commerce halted its Megaspeed probe after Nvidia stepped in, NYT reports
The Commerce Department stopped its investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia’s general counsel contacted the agents running it, Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett reported for The Ne…
YouTube streaming data returns to Billboard charts, ending major disagreement
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.