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AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says

MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets

How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data

Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion

I’m 19, and I’ve watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers

Lucid recalls 27,185 Air sedans over a software fuse that did not cut the power

Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED

AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy

Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension

As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment

Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says

Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale

Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

Walmart went from zero to 100 charging stations in under two years

Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

Claude outage hits multiple models again

Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back

A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds

A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on

Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year

Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim

Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase

Flock built an AI tool that lets police search for people by how they drive

Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic

Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute

California’s first self-driving trucks are on the road, and the rules behind them are in court

Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn

Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028

Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises

Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs

Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800

OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT

ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count

Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship

Volvo’s new app grades your driving and sends the grade to your insurer

GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months

The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio

Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series

Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone

Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud

SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work

Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI

Apple Executive Who Launched Apple Pay Is Retiring After 25 Years

Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it

OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export

Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months