Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.
Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough.…
Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Franc…
Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says
Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come …
Musk tells Isaacson only AI and robots can fix US debt, Axios reports
Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the com…
TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose …
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands w…
Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves
Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global con…
EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says
The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels …
OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports
OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth re…
Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons
Berkshire Hathaway is buying 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33 each. The Milan-based company announced the deal on 14 October. The $330m private placement adds to the $6…
Anduril opens a $1.3bn employee tender at a $90bn valuation
Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at about $90bn. The shares are priced at $94.80 each, and the of…
Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt…
Ukraine’s drones still lose Starshield above 161 km/h, Zelenskyy says
“We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, S…
Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better
The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.
Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2
“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the …
Japan puts up to $21bn into two GlobalFoundries chip fabs in New York
“Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to $21bn into two new chip factories at GlobalFoundries’ site i…
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan D…
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU…
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by…
OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports
“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenA…
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the …
Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports
“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub re…
Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept
Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein mu…