Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop…
Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will no…
Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035
“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2…
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a lis…
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week…
Oracle got AI working on itself only this year
Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employ…
‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, ab…
Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, a…
OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off
“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first v…
Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine
AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the t…
Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports
Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on wh…
Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent
“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting…
SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks
SoftBank Group has added $450m to an existing credit line, lifting the facility to $6.5bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Set against what the company is spending…
Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports
Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment.…
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more th…
Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market
Waymo plans to launch its first commercial robotaxi service in Southeast Asia in 2028, starting in Singapore. The vehicles will arrive well before then, and there will be a year o…
Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production
“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent f…
Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong
“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that pow…
Paris prosecutors open criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women
The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched at least one criminal inquiry into sexual harassment allegations linked to smart glasses, Reuters reports, which is the strongest indica…
Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets
A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirit’s to sell. Goog…
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal
Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public
Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear
An updated permit shows the 100-cap will expire later this month just as competition in Las Vegas heats up.