Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.
Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS
Verizon raised its forecasts for 2026 on Monday after a strong quarter for new phone customers. It also announced a deal worth more than $2bn with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to sup…
Goldman Sachs puts $500M into small-business AI with four AI labs
Goldman Sachs is putting $500M into the next phase of its 10,000 Small Businesses programme, including a new AI institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. At the lau…
Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs
Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Busin…
Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers
San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with sim…
Mistral’s Mensch warns Europe of ‘leftovers’ if it quits frontier AI
Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also …
Meta launches $35bn share sale to fund its AI spending
Meta launched two share offerings worth about $35bn on Monday, as it looks for new ways to pay for its growing spending on AI. The larger offering is $22.5bn of Class A common sto…
EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Soc…
PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix
PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix…
Spain’s opposition posts AI deepfakes of Sánchez’s wife before election
Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confes…
Swedish startup Strawberry launches AI browser for non-technical teams
Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and…
Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s safety for children
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use …
Elon Musk says SpaceX has raised $40bn in debt to buy AI chips
SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. Pretty much. A…
Instacart is exploring a sale, and Uber has already walked away
Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Valida Pau, Jessica E. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on …
Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads
Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. T…
SpaceX seeks 80,000 US cell sites for a mobile network, Bloomberg reports
SpaceX wants access to at least 80,000 US cell sites for its planned mobile network. Kelcee Griffis reported this for Bloomberg on 22 October. The company is in talks with at leas…
Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports
Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant report…
Tata Communications to spend $450M on AI fibre network across India
Tata Communications plans to spend close to $450M on about 10,000km of new long-distance fibre across India. The network will connect the country’s AI data-centre hubs, Reuters re…
Nous raises $17M to expand its household AI agent beyond the UK
London-based Nous has raised $17m to take its household AI agent outside the UK and add new features. Heartcore Capital and existing seed backer Mosaic Ventures provided the money…
Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer
Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Frida…
The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books
There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you pick the right one for you.
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at Silicon Valley libertarians as her book returns from the dead
"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."