Four European automakers announced military vehicle partnerships in the past week. Ineos is bidding for a UK Ministry of Defence contract. Daimler Truck launched a dedicated defence brand. Renault partnered with Thales for armoured vehicles. Mercedes-B…
A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight individuals accused of charging consumers without pe…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two peopl…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-…
Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very frontier for the ve…
Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection land…
Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and i…
Gary Marcus has spent years warning that the AI industry is building on shaky foundations. Now he sees a specific chain of dominoes: if OpenAI’s IPO underperforms, the fallout will not stop at one company. “Their values rely to a significant degree on …
Clair Health, a San Francisco startup founded by two Stanford graduates, has raised $11.6 million in seed funding to build what it calls the first continuous, noninvasive hormone monitor for women. Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from…
Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but a plurality believe the technology will ultimately damage society, and overwhelming majorities have lost confidence that either the government or the companies building it will manage it responsibly. A n…