Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders

Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations

Anthropic has built a Claude tool for financial advisers

xAI dismisses its Apple claims, with no terms disclosed and the OpenAI case still live

Volkswagen says it has built the most efficient electric car ever tested

Microsoft’s new AI rulebook rejects the research its $5bn partner is doing

Oracle told staff on Monday that Monday was their last working day

Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it

The Commission unveils its EU Kids Act on Thursday with the age limit still unsettled

Nvidia’s new quantum layer cut Fermilab’s design work from five months to three weeks

Phasecraft says it built the largest VQE dataset without using a quantum computer

Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law

Microsoft says its AI models will never resist being shut down

Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries

A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Open Cosmos raises €300M to scale satellite manufacturing across four European factories

‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

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Only 6% of teachers say their school’s AI policy is clear

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China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before Hugging Face

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Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

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BRKZ secures $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement

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Firmus is seeking $5bn in its Australian float after doubling its valuation to $10.5bn

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Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script

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Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force

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A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI

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Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds

Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act

From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing

Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out

From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?

Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity

The detrimental cost of scaling too fast

Revolut handed customer passports to scammers using a real government email domain

Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason

Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake

Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models

China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked

Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roadster reveal

Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced

The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia

Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight as the AI pivot takes over

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

Oracle has set aside $700M more for job cuts it has not made yet

China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says