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Terra Industries closes a $52mn seed and opens its first office outside Africa

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EY will keep interns on for a year before offering them a job

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OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal

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Tesla Quietly Enables Power Export On Its Best-Selling EV

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The first Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn, 36 times its estimate

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California’s first self-driving trucks are on the road, and the rules behind them are in court

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Synchrony wants your Amazon and Walmart store cards inside ChatGPT

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ByteDance signs a copyright pact with Hollywood’s MPA to rein in its Seedance AI video tool

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Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top

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Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round

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Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence

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Azerbaijan wants to become a tech hub as its startups raised $2.6m last year

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Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway

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The Supreme Court will not help Verizon recover $47mn over location data

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Alphabet takes its AI debt spree Down Under with a first Australian dollar bond

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Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand

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The AI maths breakthroughs everyone quotes are counterexamples, not proofs

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Uber is partnering with drone-delivery firm Zipline and targets a million drone deliveries a day

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Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings

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Nvidia puts $1.5bn into SoftBank’s SB Energy to power OpenAI’s Ohio data centre

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Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank

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Dutch contractor rules just changed, and the bill is backdated

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Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

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Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe

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A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block

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Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack

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A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens

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Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market

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AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it

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SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem

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Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI

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The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war

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Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn

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Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028

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Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text

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Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update

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Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

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Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs

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Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800

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Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

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LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

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AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale

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The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

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Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off

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Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns

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Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

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A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call

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The US told Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips. It has no rule that stops it

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PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

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