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Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro
Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning teams and will create new roles. Apple is cutting mo...
Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai
Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial do...
Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads
Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google D...
Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small i...
China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim
China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into the surrounding trim. The remedies are warning labels and software updates, ahead...
Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no pr...
Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to se...
Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be...
Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks
Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number...
Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Ju...
World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines
It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID,...
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs
When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bot...
US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities
The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company -- or a group of companies -- in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.
Elon Musk says Optimus and Grok could transform universal medical care in major health breakthrough
Elon Musk outlined a massive long-term vision where artificial intelligence and robotics fundamentally transform global ...
Rocket Lab CEO Says $8 Billion Iridium Deal Won’t Take on Elon Musk’s Starlink — Don’t Intend to 'Directly Compete,’ But Plans Something That 'Hasn’t Been Seen ...
Rocket Lab Corporation CEO Peter Beck said the company’s acquisition of Iridium Communications Inc. would help the Space ...
Elon Musk calls for Derek Chauvin to be freed, claims he was ‘unjustly convicted’
The billionaire offered no evidence for his claim that Chauvin did not cause Floyd’s death, which the medical examiner ruled ...
Errol Musk: ‘I’m Elon’s father, not his pal’
The far-right convener on his violent upbringing in South Africa, why he admires Vladimir Putin and Tommy Robinson — and his ...
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot starts sending confusing nonsense to users
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot starts sending confusing nonsense to users - ‘App scale designs with that and to your horse,’ ...
Elon Musk Says mRNA Has ‘Tremendous’ Potential After Moderna, Merck Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough — MRNA Stock Falls Over 11% in Premarket (UPDATED)
The story has been refreshed with the latest market price action and a revised headline. Elon Musk said Wednesday that mRNA ...
Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy
The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages.