Congress hasn’t written AI’s rules yet. It already spends nine of every ten AI dollars with OpenAI.
Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices
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SoftBank’s debt-fuelled AI bet faces its reckoning at earnings
SoftBank’s AI bet meets its accountants this week. When the Japanese group reports earnings, the headline profit will look healthy, but the real story is
Telegram vanishes from the App Store, then says it is back
Telegram briefly vanished from Apple’s App Store. The messaging app disappeared from the iOS store for many users around the world on Monday, and by
US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
Ukrainian drone operators have destroyed many Russian armored vehicles on the ground and even military helicopters in midair using $400 Shrike drones with explosive payloads.
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using
A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.
A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI
Tesla whistleblower describes dangerous understaffing while testing Full Self-Driving in Houston
Javier Medrano, a former Tesla fleet operations manager, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company turned its Houston Full Self-Driving test fleet into 24/7 “rolling
The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.
Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both
Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.
The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as
AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead
GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and
And Folks, We Have a Vibe-Coded Linux Desktop!
Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working
The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.
People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts
A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.
Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight