EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025
US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with
Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to $16.8 Billion in Third Quarter
The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
Modal raises $750M at $15.75bn valuation as run rate tops $1bn
Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D
Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California
Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part.
As phishing-as-a-service goes industrial, Microsoft takes down a marketplace behind 1 billion messages
Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in
The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic following incidents involving AI agents
The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews
A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
Collabora Productivity, Element, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, and XWiki have put their names behind a new Berlin-registered company called Open Productivity Software GmbH. Leading the firm
This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
Gaël Duval has already put out two beta releases of ElixirOffice, a desktop app and a self-hosted server version, and he is asking early testers
OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is
Things are finally looking up for NASA’s first missions to Venus in a generation
Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago. That is about to change. Two NASA missions
Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet
Schools and libraries from around the US pleaded with the Federal Communications Commission to drop the idea of ending E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year program that
Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri