Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence
Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be…

China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work
China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The un…

French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers
French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers

French media have asked the country’s competition authority to rein in Google’s use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the…

Anthropic starts marking all of Claude’s output worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect
Anthropic starts marking all of Claude’s output worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect

Anthropic has begun attaching machine-readable marks to the text and images that its Claude models generate, and will apply them to users worldwide rather than only in Europe, after signing a European Union code of practice tied to new transparency rul…

Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days
Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of Californi…

House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents
House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents

US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how…

OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books
OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books

OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg’s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI d…

House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.
House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the …

The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230
The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230

The Ninth Circuit handed the social media companies a defeat on Monday. It did not hand them a ruling. The San Francisco appeals court rejected their bid to overturn a lower court and shut down some 2,400 federal lawsuits over claims they built their p…

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968
Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

Mark Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion Future Is For Everyone Fund on Monday. It will invest directly in the American communities where Meta builds data centres. The commitment sits inside a 6,500-word letter, The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a …