Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said …
Apple will replace iPhone Duos with failing inner screens
Apple has acknowledged a fault with the inner screen of some iPhone Duos. It says affected owners can get a replacement through AppleCare. Apple gave the same statement to several…
Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos
As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.
Marissa Mayer defends asking her AI app what makes her daughter special
Marissa Mayer has defended using her startup’s AI assistant to describe her own daughter, after a New York Times profile drew a wave of criticism online. The former Yahoo chief ex…
Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s original eight team members, has written a first-hand account of Slack’s first two years inside Salesforce. It quotes Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s c…
Skydance offers staff buyouts after Warner Bros merger
Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering some employees voluntary buyouts as it looks to cut costs. Co-chief executives D…
Elon Musk says debt markets have shut out neoclouds and few will survive
Shares in CoreWeave, Nebius and Iren fell in early trading on Monday after Elon Musk wrote that most neoclouds will not survive. All three rebounded later in the day, as Arjun Kha…
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for everyday computer work
OpenAI on Monday released GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster and cheaper AI model built for the routine computer work that fills most office days. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and sits in the m…
Bending Spoons completes its $1.355bn Miro acquisition
Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Bus…
Tesla’s sell ratings hit an 11-year low as SpaceX merger hopes grow
Only five of 60 analysts tracked by Bloomberg rate Tesla a sell, the lowest share since early 2015. Barclays upgraded the stock to overweight on Monday, calling a SpaceX merger “a…
Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it
A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.
SWI Compute plans a 530MW Nvidia AI factory campus in the UK
SWI Group, the Amsterdam-listed investment group, has launched SWI Compute to build and run Nvidia AI factories, starting in Europe. The new business has ordered about $1bn of Nvi…
China clears VW for Level 3 tests and Xpeng for Level 4 robotaxis
Volkswagen and Xpeng have won approval to run higher levels of self-driving on public roads in China. VW has started Level 3 road tests in Hefei. Xpeng can now run Level 4 robotax…
UK puts £130m into AI cyber defence in a £600m+ AI package
The UK government will spend £130m on AI cyber defence, including a National Cyber Shield that uses agentic AI to protect critical infrastructure. The money is part of a package o…
Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?
Verizon CEO says SpaceX would need $500B to compete in US wireless
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said SpaceX would need up to $500B, up to 80,000 cell towers and as many as eight years to build a US mobile network that matches Verizon’s, Business Insi…
Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI projects, and non-English speakers too
The moderators of r/opensource, one of Reddit’s main open source forums, now bar any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is intended for AI. The new rules also shut out solo de…
Revolut will let app users invest in private tech companies from 2027
Revolut is building Revolut Ventures with Carne Group, a platform in its app for eligible users to invest in private tech companies, due in 2027. It builds on private market funds…
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son picks Malaysia for $50bn of AI investment, Anwar says
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has picked Malaysia for $50bn of investment in AI, new technology and data centres. Prime minister Anwar Ibrahim made the announcement on Saturday. …
Audi recalls 9,048 Q4 e-trons as VW’s battery fire problem spreads
Audi is recalling 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron SUVs in the US because their batteries could catch fire above 80% charge, an NHTSA filing shows. The cells come from SK O…
Elvis Presley’s music owners sue Anthropic over 274 songs used by Claude
Authentic Brands Group and other owners of Elvis Presley’s catalogue filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday. They want about $41.1m from the company behind Claude, …
This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding
Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.
Goldman’s Pasquariello says the tech sell-off raises doubts about AI stocks
Hedge funds sold tech stocks at their fastest pace in two years during last Thursday’s rout, Goldman Sachs’ Tony Pasquariello told clients, Bloomberg reported. The Nasdaq 100 fell…