His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon Valley’s buzziest gadgets into a very old argument about who gets to record what. HMCTS, which ru…
More than 20 years ago, King’s Cross was one of the seediest area’s in London. Now it’s sprouting something new.
Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow his stake if the fintech reaches a $500 billion valua…
Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le,…
An AI agent researched real developers, invented fake identities, and used them to pressure a human into approving malware. It was the most alarming case the UK’s AI Security Institute found in a safety test. “This is the first time we have seen risks …
Uber wants to own the robotaxi era without building the cars. “Building a great autonomous driver is one part of building a successful autonomous business,” chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told analysts on Wednesday. He then listed the rest: dispatch…
Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In the same week, a report found it pays almost nothing in ta…
A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And…
Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple’s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powe…
Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.