Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection as the penalty for failing to comply. It is a markedly firmer position t…
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this w…
Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about …
Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people attended, almost all of them Apple employees, at the Caffè Macs cafeteria on the company’s Cupertino campus. OneRepublic played. Aaron Til…
A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and t…
The world’s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AI’s $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday….
Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a…
Waymo has announced it is laying the groundwork for autonomous ride-hailing in Munich, starting with high-definition mapping and manual driving in the coming weeks. It aims to open a commercial service to the public toward the end of 2027. Munich is ge…
Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the broker’s own app. The Munich company says it is the first…
Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference…