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A grief-stricken road trip, The Traitors on the go and other new indie games worth checking out
Here's our weekly roundup of indie games to look forward to.
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving is now called Assisted Driving in Europe
Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving in Europe, as it seeks to get it approved in more countries.
Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate
Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle Eas…
The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn't
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousa…
The director of Fjord takes the ‘risky position’ of moderator
Cristian Mungiu's sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They've just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjord…
The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body
I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck. The Telo MT1 (which stands for…
Nvidia’s comms chief leaves after four months, Business Insider reports
Anna Soellner, who ran corporate communications at Nvidia, has left after about four months, Geoff Weiss reported for Business Insider. Soellner joined the chipmaker around June, …
Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads
Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelli…
Ramp hits $60bn valuation in $1.85bn round, Bloomberg reports
Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investme…
How drones are hunting fires hidden beneath the Cairngorms
Dramatic flames from the huge Cairngorms wildfire in July have disappeared - but hot spots can continue to burn beneath the earth.
Law firm Quinn Emanuel maps how AI data centre debt could unravel
A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds ag…
Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) …
Cirrus Logic made rival bid for Synaptics, Bloomberg reports
Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported for Bloomberg. Cirrus Logi…
Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China
A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘…
Rwanda reportedly wins Africa’s first F1 Grand Prix since 1993
Rwanda looks set to host Formula 1’s first African Grand Prix in more than 30 years. Motorsport site RacingNews365 first reported the deal, citing paddock sources, as GrandPrix.co…
Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing
An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model f…
My brief romance with an AI bird feeder
It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350 $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. "Looks like Great T…
Elon Musk intensifies attack on Ambani over Starlink India launch delay
Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.
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Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.
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Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.