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Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.

Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.

X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead

Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export

Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.

Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works

NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI

Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language

The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie

BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.

Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale

AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value

OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk

Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.

His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna

Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT

Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots

Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.

Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason

Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t

Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need

Inevitable AI Group closes $6M pre-seed round led by Aleph to bring SaaS to the AI age

Microsoft’s AI business is booming. A filing shows most of it is just OpenAI

Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

China opens a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks

Unitree’s IPO could value China’s robot champion at $7bn or more

X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

Berlin’s Moss becomes a unicorn betting on ‘controllable’ finance AI

Kids who join social media early get worse grades, a big study finds

Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.

Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

Google’s $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife

OpenAI’s AI models coordinated a months-long breakout to hack Hugging Face

Atoms hires Travis Kalanick’s old Uber finance chief as CFO

DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch

Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test

OpenAI wants Apple’s trade-secrets case thrown out