Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

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OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

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Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

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Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

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TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

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Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

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Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.

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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings

Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO

Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage

Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos

Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe

Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause

All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day

Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports

Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035

OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

Oracle got AI working on itself only this year

‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports

Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent

SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks

Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

Waymo will launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market

Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong

Paris prosecutors open criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women

Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets

Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security

Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction

Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit

Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year

Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing