Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the creator-payments company laid off 93 people, about 20% of its workforce, as 404 Media first reported. Chief executive Jack Conte called the …
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave…
Tesla has closed the mysterious ~$2 billion acquisition of an AI hardware company that it first hinted at in April — and it did so, again, without naming the target or issuing a press release.
The deal was confirmed in a single passage buried in Tesla’…
Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. T…
This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, …
Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to unveil multibillion-dollar memory-chip partnerships with major U.S. technology companies during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to San Francisco
An AI unit has been set up at the centre of the UK government to drive overall AI strategy, following a major AI shakeup inside the government this week. The unit, called the Prime Minister’s AI Taskf…
Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down about a quarter this year. It pushed out its chairman in February. And investors worry that a new wave of AI could hollow out its mai…
OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform’s production infrastructure.
British Gas is cutting 1,300 customer service roles as its CEO argues that people are moving toward digital channels and AI tools.