The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge …
Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Il…
The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products…
You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI m…
Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP address. Researchers have found three ways it does not. The paid feature, part of an iCloud+ subscription, masks your real IP address while you browse in Safari. But three flaws in WebKit, Apple’s brows…
The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer …
Microsoft’s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the y…
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…
Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…
Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the resu…