Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric
Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric

Audi has revealed the Nuvolari, the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The hybrid supercar produces 1,001 PS (736 kW) from a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo paired with three axial flux electric motors. Only 499 will be built, starting a…

Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.
Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.

Chinese electric vehicles face 125% cumulative tariffs, a proposed Senate ban, and fierce opposition from lawmakers and the US auto industry. But there is a growing possibility that Chinese EVs will be sold in the US within the next few years. The rout…

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits
Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and governments face “very big social choices” as energy const…

Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant
Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant

Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first commercial-scale microwave-assisted PET recycling plant. The round was led by 360 Capital, with new investor VP Textile also participating. The proceed…

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack
Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack

The self-replicating Miasma worm has reached Microsoft‘s own GitHub repositories. GitHub disabled 73 repositories across four Microsoft organisations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, after the worm planted malicious code t…

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.
An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that touches video. The startup, depthfirst, says the run cost roughly $1,000 in compute. Some o…

EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s dependence on Chinese chips and rare earths
EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s dependence on Chinese chips and rare earths

EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument“ to reduce Europe’s dependence on single suppliers of chips and rare earths. He made the proposal at the European Policy Center’s Brussels Economic Security Forum on …

Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with AI drug startup Manus
Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with AI drug startup Manus

Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft‘s board of directors after nearly a decade. The company disclosed the departure in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Hoffman said he wants to go “founder mode” with Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startu…

Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking
Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking

A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by Chinese state-linked hackers. William Barlow served as IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019. In a whistleblower lawsuit unseal…

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.
Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There a…