Amazon’s Bee Adds Two Personal AI Devices Starting at $75
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
Disney Will Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 Character.AI Employees
CERN and Mistral Will Train a Physics Model on Collision Data
Salesforce Wins a Tax Authority Contract Worth Up to 2 Billion Pounds
Netflix Replaces Its Content Chief and Cuts Nearly a Thousand Jobs
Apple’s First Foldable Sold Out Its First Run in About 30 Minutes
Waymo Picks Toronto as Its Fourth Market Outside the United States
Google and Brussels Discuss Remedies for a 890 Million Euro Antitrust Bill
Google Adds CNN to Its News Licensing Deals and Passes 400 Partners
Microsoft Sells a Model That Scores Choices Instead of Writing
Microsoft’s newest AI product does not write. Give it a list of options and it returns a probability for each one — a score, not a sentence. The company is…
Musk and Ambani Clash Over Starlink’s Path Into India
Elon Musk has spent four years trying to bring Starlink to India, a market of more than 1.4 billion people and one of the few large populations his satellite service…
Britain’s Data Watchdog Turns Its Scrutiny to AI Agents
The British regulator that polices how companies handle personal data spent this year pressing the builders of AI models to change the way they treat people’s information. This week it…
The White House Ends Voluntary AI Incident Reporting
For years, American AI companies decided for themselves when to tell the government that one of their models had misbehaved. That arrangement ended this week, in a statement the White…
Vance Suspends Microsoft’s Path to Permanent Residency
Microsoft files more permanent labor certification applications than any company in the country. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said it would file no more, at least for now, while…
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers in a Dispute Over Disclosure
The three dismissals happened quietly last week, three researchers out of OpenAI’s safety group, each handed a slightly different reason. They became public when the researchers posted an open letter…
Anthropic’s Test Model Gave Philadelphia Police a Fictional Tip
The message reached the Philadelphia police through the public forum the department keeps for unsolved homicides, sent shortly before midnight on July 18. It claimed to come from someone with…
A Memory Chipmaker Has Sold More Than It Can Ship in a Quarter
The clearest sign of how tight the market for AI memory chips has become came on an earnings call in early October, when Kash Shaikh, the chief executive of Penguin…
A Startup Worth $200 Million Three Weeks Ago Just Raised at $7.5 Billion
On September 15, a San Francisco company called TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with a 40-million-dollar seed round led by DCVC and a valuation of roughly 200 million dollars. Twenty-four…
Boston Dynamics Hands Its Robots to the Man Who Built Alexa
For nearly a year, the company that makes the world’s most famous robots had no permanent leader. Robert Playter, who ran Boston Dynamics for six years and spent three decades…
