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OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.

YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program

House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230

An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

The FCC wants to ban DJI drones it already approved. LiDAR and thermal cameras are now “military-grade.”

Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it

Moburst reveals AI-powered mobile growth playbook following record campaign performance milestones

Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment

Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking

You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty

Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness

Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.

Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.

OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

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