Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own
Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill w…
More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says
Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobi…
Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team
Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co…
Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs
Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company …
Microsoft adds tools to limit and monitor AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7
Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits …
Emil Michael tells The Information export controls can rein in AI labs
Emil Michael says the US government can use export controls on AI companies that do not cooperate with it. The under secretary of war is the Pentagon’s chief technology officer. H…
Netflix faces engagement questions ahead of Q3 results
Netflix will report its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, as investors look for signs that viewers are spending less time on the service. Analysts expect revenue to ri…
AI agents broke into 100+ sites for one hacker at $50 each, researcher says
A cybersecurity researcher watched a Chinese-speaking hacker break into the websites of more than 100 companies, leaving almost all the work to AI agents. Snorre Fagerland, princi…
MIT researchers say Claude agents left on a virtual island began to play
MIT researchers left 13 copies of an AI coding agent alone on a virtual island for 30 hours each, with no task. The agents climbed hills, drew pictures with blocks and made up gam…
PLD Space starts system-level tests on Miura 5 with three rockets built
Spanish launch company PLD Space announced that it has started system-level testing of its Miura 5 orbital rocket and has now built its first three vehicles. Two of the three are …
Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review
Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content.
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours with no human help
Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have defeated the Ender Dragon, Minecraft’s final boss, without human help. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes from their first…
Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares
That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth.
Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows
Disney expects to spend about $180m over three years on the Character.AI staff it is hiring, a bankruptcy court filing shows. The sum covers pay and retention. Character Technolog…
Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable sta…
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers
Tenstorrent, the AI chip company run by Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5bn Series E round at a $6.2bn post-money valuation, it announced on Monday. Trace Capital and Innovation X led…
Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year
Elon Musk’s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own sh…
Nscale reportedly faces investor pushback on its $30B IPO valuation
Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. A val…
Uber says it has defeated £340M lawsuit from London black cab drivers
Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about £340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former…
Norway’s Bulk reportedly seeks Canadian owner for cable bypassing US
Norway’s Bulk Infrastructure Group wants a Canadian partner to own most of a planned subsea cable between Europe and Canada. The cable would avoid the US. Bulk’s founder, Peder Næ…
Meta says a Claude AI tool triggered the No Kings Instagram suspension
Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic’s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta’s vice presi…
Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B
Accenture is exploring a sale of its Greater China business, in a deal that could value the unit at up to $1.5bn, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The consulting firm has h…
Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform
Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habit…
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund
Anthropic plans to place 5% of its shares in a new entity called the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. The AI company announced the plan on Sunday, but it still needs approval from A…