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Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets
Crypto exchange Bitget says hackers took about $351.6m from its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. It suspects North Korea. The company said on X that its systems spotted unauthori…
Meadow lets you leave your smartphone at home without sacrificing the essentials
“We’re not Luddites... it’s just we don’t want social media, browsing and that kind of stuff," said 25-year-old founder Shreyas Narlanka.
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Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent
Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI …
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers
The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai …
North Korean hackers suspected in $351M crypto theft, the largest so far this year
The $351 million theft from crypto exchange Bitget is the latest in a string of high profile hacks targeting the crypto sector.
Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment
Prince Harry has warned that AI companion chatbots are repeating social media’s harm to children, with technology that is “more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful”. He s…
Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act wou…
Xi tells Trump the US and China can jointly prevent AI misuse and abuse
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also …
Chinese cities offer subsidies and cheap computing to lure AI film studios
Local governments across China are competing to attract AI filmmakers with subsidised rent, living allowances and cheap computing power, Reuters reported on Friday. Zhu Zhili set …
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly meet tech CEOs on AI on 29 September
US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet tech chief executives to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday, 29 September, Axios reported the plans on T…
SoftBank invests $225M in ASI and forms autonomous construction venture
SoftBank Group has invested $225 million into Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Utah company that makes work vehicles drive themselves.The two have also set up a joint venture t…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model
OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber, a model built for cybersecurity work, in the coming weeks, Fortune reported on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the plans…
US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine
The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Departm…
Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows.
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well.
Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.
Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai
Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further…
The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken
Would you trust an AI agent to run your Amazon store? That future may be near. But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an in…
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack com…
The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent
Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That’s up from less than 5%. The systems meant to cat…
Volkswagen is selling more EVs than petrol cars in Germany, and building them in Spain
Volkswagen is now taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, its home market and the largest in Europe, and has cancelled planned extra shifts at …