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
Meta Says Muse Can’t Read Messages Without Consent
Jason Aten had turned the setting off. The Inc. columnist had installed Meta’s AI agent Muse on an iPhone and a Mac mini to test it, and he had left…
DoorDash Air’s Drone Starts on the Ground
Harrison Shih runs a drone program at DoorDash where the aircraft came last. The head of the company’s new air-delivery service spent the early work on packaging, loading systems and…
FedEx Bets $300 Million on an Electric-Truck Startup’s Single Model
FedEx has spent years buying electric delivery vehicles one pilot order at a time. On Sept. 30 it committed to a single supplier in a single stroke: 2,000 medium-duty electric…
Pentagon Personnel Agency Says a File-Sharing Flaw Exposed Troop Data for Months
The letter arrived without a number. It told recipients that “a small number of unauthorized users” had reached a file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon’s…
Pentagon Hands Its Look at Future War to Three Outsiders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before officers and enlisted troops at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30 and said the department that runs the largest military on earth cannot…
Reddit Kills RSS and Its Public API to Shut Out AI Scrapers
Reddit handed its moderators and developers a timetable this week that reads like a farewell to the open web. RSS support ends on November 13. The public API closes in…
More Than 44,000 Britons Formally Object to Palantir’s NHS Data Platform
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections asking NHS England to stop Palantir from sharing, storing or using their health records. It is one of the largest single waves…
ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22 Billion in a $300 Million Employee Tender
Eight months ago, ElevenLabs was worth $11 billion. This week the voice-AI startup told its employees they could sell vested shares at a price that values the company at $22…
SoftBank Closes Its $3.1 Billion Takeover of DigitalBridge
SoftBank Group finished the deal it announced a year ago, closing its acquisition of DigitalBridge, the digital infrastructure investment manager, on Sept. 30. The purchase valued the company’s common stock…
A Nightly Maintenance Task Cut Microsoft’s Cloud Off at the Gates
Microsoft’s engineers knew something was wrong within minutes. At 20:30 UTC on Sept. 30, customers across the company’s Azure cloud began reporting that ExpressRoute gateways, the private connections linking corporate…
