Proton to re-interview staff on AI, with jobs at stake, 404 Media reports
Proton, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail, will “re-interview” some of its staff about how they use AI at work. The results may affect who keeps their job. Internal messages sh…
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Holdings agrees to buy ADT for $7.6bn in cash
Thrive Holdings, the holding company set up by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital, has agreed to buy ADT for $10 a share in cash. ADT sells home security systems in the US. The deal …
Ford says its new EV drivetrain is 30% more efficient than BYD’s
Ford CEO Jim Farley says the drivetrain in its new low-cost EV platform is about 30% more efficient than BYD’s, so Ford can use smaller, cheaper batteries. The platform debuts in …
Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary
Anthropic spent $2,745,874 on personal security for chief executive Dario Amodei in 2025, more than four times his $654,167 salary. The figure is in the company’s IPO filing. The …
Cognition weighs funding at up to $80bn valuation, Business Insider reports
Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, has received investor offers that value it at $70bn to $80bn. The San Francisco company is seriously considering raising a…
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
Toyota will turn its bZ electric SUV into Waymo robotaxis from 2027
Toyota will build driverless versions of its bZ electric SUV for Waymo at its Takaoka plant in Japan, with testing from 2027. Japan comes first, then the UK. Neither company said …
Entourage closes €100m second fund, passing its target in two weeks
Entourage, the early-stage venture firm founded by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten, has closed its second fund at €100m. It passed its €75m target within two weeks, took more …
EU plans to let Frontex monitor social media and flag posts for removal
The European Commission wants Frontex, the EU’s border agency, to monitor public social media posts about migration. It would also flag illegal content to platforms. MEPs and digi…
STMicroelectronics forecasts $4.15bn quarter as AI data centres lift demand
STMicroelectronics expects fourth-quarter revenue of $4.15bn, up about 10.5% on the third quarter and above analysts’ forecasts. The Franco-Italian chipmaker says AI data centres …
Ofcom names four age checks for the UK’s under-16 social media ban
Ofcom has named four age checks it says can reliably tell whether UK social media users are 16 or over. They will underpin the UK social media ban for under-16s due next year, and…
South Korea fines Google and Apple $47.6m over app store payments
South Korea has fined Google and Apple a combined 63.7bn won ($47.6m). The regulator says they forced app developers onto their own payment systems and delayed app reviews without…
Putin says Russia is in close contact with Musk over its Starlink rival
Vladimir Putin has called Elon Musk “a real genius” and said Russia is in close contact with him over satellites in orbit. Putin spoke on Wednesday at the Russia-Africa summit in …
xAI offers to buy Mississippi homes if owners drop noise claims
Elon Musk’s xAI is buying homes next to its power plant in Southaven, Mississippi. The catch is that sellers must drop any claims in a noise lawsuit against the company. A realtor…
North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach
Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billions in crypto.
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DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers
UK’s National Wealth Fund to invest in defence tech firm
The UK’s National Wealth Fund is planning to invest in Uforce, a London-based defence technology company that makes military drones and robots, the Financial Times reported on Fri…
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Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
Meta, TikTok and X reportedly lose UK court fight over Ofcom data demands
Meta, TikTok and X have lost a legal challenge against the UK’s online safety regulator over the amount of data it can demand from social media platforms, Reuters reported on Frid…
Volkswagen loses €5.8bn in a quarter as Porsche, China and tariffs bite
Volkswagen lost €5.8bn after tax in the third quarter. A €6.4bn write-down on Porsche drove the loss. Shrinking sales in China, US import tariffs and thinner margins on electric c…
Software transparency as a business priority: Governing AI-driven development and complex supply chains
Software supply chain integrity appears to be becoming an increasingly important consideration in enterprise risk management. This comes as AI-assisted development expands and sof…
HP, Asus and Acer move some PC making back to China, Nikkei Asia reports
HP, Asus and Acer are moving some PC production back to China from Thailand and Vietnam, Nikkei Asia reported. AI demand is driving up the cost of memory and storage chips. Dell i…