China’s first all-AI feature film cost $1.5m and has made about $180,000
Sanxingdui: Future Past is China’s first fully AI-generated feature film. It took an estimated $180,000 in its first four days in cinemas, to Monday. Ticketing platform Maoyan sup…
Volkswagen to take China-developed car technology to global markets
Volkswagen plans to use technology developed in China in cars sold in other markets, starting with South America, Reuters reported from Hefei on Wednesday. Until now, the carmaker…
Malaysia seizes $12.1M of AI chips at Kuala Lumpur airport
Malaysian customs officers have seized 30 servers containing advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the authorities said on Wednesday. The shipment was wo…
Polymarket faces new CFTC probe over US users on offshore platform
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is again looking into whether Polymarket broke a 2022 deal to keep US users off its offshore platform. Reuters reported the news…
FIA names AWS its official AI and cloud partner for motor sport
The FIA, which governs motor sport worldwide, has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) its official partner for AI, cloud computing, machine learning and cloud infrastructure. The deal…
US Federal Election Commission filing system down before midterms
The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has taken its electronic filing system offline following an attempted cyberattack, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an internal email. …
More listening isn’t the same as better listening
Most large companies already listen to their employees. In mid-September 2026, Remesh, an AI-powered employee listening platform, surveyed 107 HR leaders in the US and UK on its o…
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia
OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financial terms and other details of the planned purch…
Proxima Fusion signs two Japanese deals to build its fusion supply chain
Building a fusion power plant takes more than getting the physics right. It also means securing thousands of kilometres of specialised materials and the equipment needed to heat a…
Jio shares surge 21% in market debut after blockbuster India IPO
Jio has debuted as India's second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash
The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.
From 8VC to Benchmark, here’s what’s hiding in October SEC filings
A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.
GM is embracing hybrids now
GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now, it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.
Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
Discord is making its public communities more searchable, and people have concerns
In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.
Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."
Invesco brings its model portfolios into Anthropic’s Claude for advisers
Invesco is working with Anthropic to let financial advisers use its model portfolios and practice tools inside Claude for Financial Advisors. CAIS, Conquest and FINNY added their …
Oracle bundles AI video tools and streaming into one media platform
Oracle announced Media Fabric at AI World, a platform that combines its own AI video and image models, an AI production suite and a live-streaming network. It lets brands make man…
ASM lifts its 2027 sales forecast by a quarter as AI chipmakers spend
ASM International raised its 2027 revenue forecast to more than €5.7B, from above €4.6B, as memory and AI chipmakers expand. That reaches its 2030 target three years early. Third-…
Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Whop raises $200M at $5.1B valuation after shipping three products in three months
Palo Alto-based Whop has closed a $200 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures at a $5.1 billion valuation, and plans to open offices in Europe and Colombia, …