Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI’s dots run on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs

Post-launch Geekbench 7 runs show Debian Linux instead of the leak’s Ubuntu.

Samsung’s new tablets arrive more expensive, and its tracker lasts longer
Samsung’s new tablets arrive more expensive, and its tracker lasts longer

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S12+ and S12 Ultra reach Europe on 7 October at 1,299 and 1,539 euros, roughly 180 euros above the model the first replaces, against a 100 dollar rise in America. The entry-level 11-inch tablet was not updated, which is what the me…

CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI
CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI

CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the…

OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI…

Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues rai…

ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22bn in a $300m share sale

ElevenLabs is now worth $22bn, double its $11bn valuation in February. Employees and existing investors sold $300m of shares, the voice AI company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Wellington Management and T. Rowe Price led the deal. Six investors bou…

ElevenLab’s valuation doubles to $22BN, as completes $300M employee tender offer

Thevaluation of UK hyped AI-audio generator ElevenLabs has doubled to $22bn in less than a year, it said today, as itcompleted a $300m employee tender offer.ElevenLabsCEO Mati Staniszewski announced t…

FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the pro…

DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages
DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages

DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg’s testing found it giving prices that differed from the app, which in Europe is a…

Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design
Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design

Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Digital Markets Act cannot require Amazon to restore it, because none of it…