Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the eve…
Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of…
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…
Lovable has become the first coding agent platform certified under AIUC-1, a security standard for AI agents that comes with something unusual attached: the certifying body also underwrites the risk. Customers using a certified agent are insured, throu…
Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a new Apple Watch SE planned for 2026. That absence is the…
Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the p…
The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder C…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a not…
Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and Davi…
Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpasse…