Tesla's battle with the California Department of Motor Vehicles isn't over after all: Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California DMV in the ongoing battle around Autopilot. Read More
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox: The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent. Read More
Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments: Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow's $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation of $85 million. Read More
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Tech firms are setting the pace in global trade preparedness, with 91% confident about international growth in the next two years. 79% have made or considered changes to where assembly or processing takes place to mitigate tariffs. Liquidity is a top priority, as 71% have seen an increase in short-term financing to address working capital needs.
It's time to pull the plug on plug-in hybrids: Plug-in hybrid vehicles are rarely charged, according to a new study. Why are automakers still producing them? Read More
Conduent data breach grows, affecting at least 25M people: The number of people affected by a data breach at government contractor giant Conduent is growing, as millions of people continue to receive notices warning them that hackers stole their personal data. Read More
Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design: It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic's enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions. Read More
Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases 'personal superintelligence': Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity. Read More
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing: With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement. Read More
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Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data: Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database. Read More
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras: While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands. Read More
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports: Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude's AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China's AI progress. Read More
Google's Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability: AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility." Read More
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic's Amodei over military use of Claude: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Read More
How AI agents could destroy the economy: Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third. Read More
Uber's new autonomous vehicle division is about survival and opportunity: Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business. Read More
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push: OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform. Read More
VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report: Chinese hackers allegedly broke into the network of an Ivanti subsidiary in 2021. The hackers exploited a backdoor in its VPN product, which allowed the hackers to gain access to 119 other unnamed organizations. Read More
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Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens.
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM: The company open sourced an 8-billion-parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable. Read More
