Iowa and Ohio voters back AI safety measures over winning the AI race
Voters in Iowa and Ohio want AI safety rules even if the US is not always first in the AI race, a new poll from a Republican pollster finds. Days before the US midterm elections, …
Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky has pushed venture capital investors off his company’s board, one funding round at a time. He wants other founders to keep VCs out of the boa…
Foxconn chairman says new OpenAI tie-up is in the works, Reuters reports
Foxconn is working on a new partnership with OpenAI, chairman Young Liu told reporters in Taipei on Friday, Reuters reported. Liu said he had met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman…
Wikimedia asks court to rule AI training fair use, but not chatbot copying
The Wikimedia Foundation wants the judge in The New York Times’ copyright fight with OpenAI to split the question in two. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is likely fair u…
Spotify plans to launch AI remix tool in early 2027, FT reports
Spotify is preparing to launch a paid AI tool that lets fans create their own versions of songs, with a release planned for early 2027, the Financial Times reported on Friday, cit…
Reddit will make users log in as Google’s AI search cuts its traffic
Reddit is moving to a “logged-in-only experience”, chief executive Steve Huffman told shareholders on Thursday. For most of its 21-year history, anyone could read the site without…
Binance says its $6.3bn hack involved more than a compromised laptop
Binance now says a compromised laptop was not the only way in. Its investigation has “uncovered additional points of breach” in the attack that hit about $6.3bn of its assets on T…
Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models
Dream, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to design and engineer buildings, came out of stealth on Thursday with $17M in seed funding. Investors in the round include Andreessen …
Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the U.K.
Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.
Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.
Binance pauses withdrawals as hackers suspected of stealing billions in crypto
Some estimates say hackers stole billions in crypto from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, during a cyberattack on Thursday.
Elon Musk is ‘truly a genius,’ says Vladimir Putin
Putin said that he and Musk are in "close contact" about Rassvet, Russia's Starlink-like satellite connectivity project.
Amazon reported booming cloud revenue but otherwise missed expectations
The biggest ouch of the report was its negative free cash flow of $2.4 billion.
GM reaches $220M settlement over selling drivers’ private data
As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.
Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks
Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community.
FTC and eight states sue Toast over hidden fees and hard-to-cancel plans
The US Federal Trade Commission and eight states have sued Toast, the restaurant software and payments company. They accuse it of hidden fees, unwanted add-ons and a cancellation …
Intel shares sink as memory shortage drags its PC chip outlook
Intel forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $15B to $16B, below the $17B analysts expected, as a memory chip shortage hits PC demand and supply problems slow its data centre unit. Sh…
Anthropic is SpaceX’s biggest customer, bringing in a third of revenue
Anthropic is the “Customer B” that made up 34.5% of SpaceX’s third-quarter revenue, Bloomberg reports, overtaking the US government as its biggest client. Anthropic could spend up…
As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres
OpenAI will point its robotics programme at building data centres, chief executive Sam Altman said. Self-replicating data centres, built with AI-controlled robots, are “within gra…
The R2 SUV is already Rivian’s best-selling vehicle
Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
Microsoft’s Copilot daily users grew five times in a year, Nadella says
Copilot daily users grew nearly 50% in the three months to September, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said. That is more than five times as many as a year earlier. Microso…