Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup
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Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back
A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo
Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web
Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is
A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.
Until recently, many tech professionals viewed themselves as a special and respected worker class: highly educated, hard-working, well paid, and in demand. “They considered themselves
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital
The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, is raising private capital, the DealBook newsletter reported early Wednesday. According to the publication, the company
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are inherently unable to distinguish between
In San Francisco, Some Home Sellers Now Ask for OpenAI or Anthropic Stock
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers
France orders Meta back to talks with news publishers over content payments
Meta has been told to go back and talk to France’s newspapers about money. On Wednesday, the country’s competition regulator ordered the company to reopen
Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching
Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier
Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2bn valuation
Lovable, the Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300m at a $13.2bn post-money valuation, Sifted reports, citing two people familiar with the deal. The
A Telstra outage stopped Australian trains and froze taxi payments
For a few hours on Wednesday morning, chunks of Australia’s daily infrastructure simply stopped answering. A nationwide outage at Telstra, the country’s largest carrier, cut
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone
Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool launched as a desktop app in January and
Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house