John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday….
Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safet…
X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 5…
The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The argument is…
Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds…
Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m into a round of roughly $1bn that values Polymarket at $21…
Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organ…
Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The …
The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets,…