ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft ‘blind’ and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths
ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft ‘blind’ and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths

The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI’s Codex.

AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes
AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes

I have come to believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is also one of the most expensive: the idea that technology can repair a business that has never streamlined how its processes actually work. AI can accelerate an operation, automat…

Google lifts the Pixel 10a price to $599 as memory costs climb
Google lifts the Pixel 10a price to $599 as memory costs climb

Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory costs that its own vice president said had risen from $2.80 per gigabyte to $12. Apple and Samsung have both repriced existing phones i…

Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T
Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T

Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe’s most valuable listed company, needs the sam…

This new ChatGPT scam tricks you into installing malware – how to spot the trap

This authentic-looking scam starts with a sponsored Google link – and it’s catching people off-guard.

Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation
Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation

FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to Fie…

Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists

Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks sinc…

Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference
Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference

Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027,…

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year. For many enterprises, this investment has…

California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China

U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia-powered servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore, allegedly using false paperwork to conceal their final destination