Volkswagen’s affordable EV plans have a new Chinese partner
Volkswagen has agreed three joint ventures with China’s Gotion to build lithium iron phosphate battery capacity, selling 49% of PowerCo’s Valencia plant and taking minority stakes…
NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028
NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing annou…
Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports
Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may no…
AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says
The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, pu…
BYD says it will have a solid-state car next year, the earliest date anyone has given
BYD executive vice-president Stella Li says the company will have one model with solid-state batteries next year, which is the earliest date any carmaker has given. Toyota says 20…
Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year
Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show…
After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building “glasses for voice”
Uhura Bionics, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield 200, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.
Oura shelves its $2.2B IPO citing ‘uncertainty’ in the market
The postponement of the IPO will delay some of the company's plans for its proceeds from the IPO, as well as those of its shareholders.
Claude is down as Anthropic investigates errors across its services
Anthropic is experiencing high error rates with Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API, and users have reported failed requests as well as difficulties loading …
Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang
AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after …
Google will end ChromeOS updates in mid-2034 as Googlebook OS arrives
Google will stop updating ChromeOS in mid-2034, it says on a support page for schools and businesses that manage Chromebooks. Many newer Chromebooks will be able to switch to Goog…
With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox
The former Yahoo CEO is introducing a new AI personal assistant based entirely on your photos.
Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet
Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each …
Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses
The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.
Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports
Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot see the photos users upload for AI editing, with faces uncensored, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on Monday. They also se…
Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are
AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users’ behalf. However, when an agent …
Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix
Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.
Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meet…
Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Demo…
Caterers see a $3.2bn market in feeding AI data centre workers
Feeding, housing and entertaining the people who build AI data centers could be worth $3.2bn a year to catering companies by 2032, Bloomberg reported, citing analysts at Bloomberg…
Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps
Fireflies said that it won't charge extra for the new dictation feature, which can be used with any desktop app.
New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety
The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Me…
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source pr…