Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review u…

China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies
China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies

China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people …

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation
EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation, according to Business Insider. Katie Roof reported the round on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with it. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks to lead it. The details …

Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute
Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute

Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and t…

Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips
Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips

Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in…

AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws
AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws

Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on…

Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe
Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe

Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earbuds look nearly ready to launch. The clip runs 13 se…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 1…

YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not
YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobo…

Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew
Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequen…