Google funds a 1GW virtual power plant with Voltus on the PJM grid
Google will fund a 1 gigawatt virtual power plant run by Voltus on the PJM grid, to supply capacity for its operations there. The deal adds 1,070 megawatts to the 100 megawatts th…
eMudhra drops TLS certificates days after browsers blocked its keys
eMudhra is leaving the global SSL/TLS certificate business, days after browsers blocked eight of its certificates. The Indian certificate authority’s board decided to withdraw vol…
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national securit…
Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in
Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Nether…
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an AI model for questions about DNA
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-source AI model that lets researchers ask questions about DNA in everyday language. Users paste in a genetic sequence, ask a question, …
Web Summit survey: 59% in tech say AI has increased their workload
Almost six in 10 people working in tech say AI has added to their workload rather than cutting it. That is the headline finding of Web Summit’s first State of the Industry report,…
Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid robot will run on Nvidia as it heads for Nasdaq
Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nv…
Adobe becomes AI fan experience partner of BWT Alpine F1 team
Adobe and the BWT Alpine Formula One Team have signed a global premium partnership. Under the deal, Adobe becomes the team’s official AI fan experience partner, providing software…
Nebius borrows $3.5bn from Citi as it says AI compute prices keep rising
Nebius has signed a $3.5 billion loan facility with Citi to build more data centres and buy GPUs. The Amsterdam-based AI cloud company announced the deal on Thursday. The secured …
Musk says training Tesla’s Optimus robots is like raising a toddler
Tesla needs to build between 10,000 and 20,000 Optimus humanoid robots so they can learn to perform tasks through practice, Elon Musk said during the company’s third-quarter earni…
Spotify hits 306 million subscribers and expects 316 million by year end
Spotify ended the third quarter with 306 million paying subscribers, up 9% from a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Thursday. Monthly active users …
Musk’s backing for a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled insiders, Reuters reports
Some of the people working on a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger worry that Elon Musk’s public comments could draw shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks, Reuters…
Tesla’s profit falls 43% as it starts building Optimus robots
Tesla made $787 million in net income in the third quarter, down from $1.37 billion a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Wednesday. Revenue was flat…
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an AI agent that works in the background
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, a new app that lets its AI assistant keep working in the background while users are away. The company announced the research previ…
ESET says Russia-linked hackers hid malware traffic in Yggdrasil network
ESET linked hackers to Russia, using a decentralised network to hide their malware during an attack on a Ukrainian grain company. The security company says it is the first documen…
Your enterprise has more AI than you think, and security can’t see it all
Over the years, enterprises have been in an all-out sprint to adopt the latest and greatest AI models. In that sprint, the average AI stack has grown quickly to include an array o…
Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs this year as AI makes the bank more efficient
Barclays expects to have cut around 5,000 jobs by the end of 2026, roughly 5% of its staff. The bank said artificial intelligence and other technology now let it do the same work …
What happens when AI takes over the entry-level work?
Finance professionals used to learn their jobs by doing the work themselves. They processed invoices, reconciled accounts, investigated exceptions, chased approvals, and gradually…
European publishers ask EU and UK regulators to stop Meta’s AI terms
Europe’s biggest news publishers are asking regulators in the EU and UK to stop Meta from introducing new business terms that they fear could allow the company to copy content fro…
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas says AI now reviews half its accounts payable
Boomi is approaching $1bn in recurring revenue, chairman and chief executive Steve Lucas told TNW. The integration company has tripled its revenue in the four years since he joine…
Palantir says it cannot switch off NATO’s Maven AI system
Palantir says neither it nor the US government can remotely shut down Maven, its AI-powered battlefield system used by NATO’s top military command. The assurance comes as European…
Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year
Tesla said Wednesday it will start selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of the year, even as federal regulators investigate whether the vehicle meets vehicle safety standa…
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.