Elon Musk Sounds Alarm Over Global Population ‘Collapse’: ‘I’ve Been Warning About This for Years’
Elon Musk is sounding the alarm once again, warning that the world is currently facing a completely unprecedented crisis: ...
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Did Wernher’s 1948 ‘Project Mars’ predict Elon Musk? Truth behind ‘Elon’ connection
Coincidences happen and the prediction of the billionaire Elon Musk in a 1948 book is one of the strangest coincidences in ...
Elon Musk just got into another airline disagreement
Elon Musk warned Delta Air Lines its Amazon Leo Wi-Fi bet will get worse as United Airlines expands Starlink to 450 aircraft ...
Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight
Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV...
Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%
PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8% to 112.4bn yuan, or $16.6bn, missing forecasts. Shares rose about 3.5% premarket as European regulatory pressure on Temu continues...
Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month
Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither comp...
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, a...
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74 servers containing B300 chips to China via Japan and Indonesia. They are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust. The first...
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code
A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developer’s own account and a follow-up from a Firefox engineer. Con...
Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was
A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot ove...
Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July
Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted o...
TCS buys Porsche’s MHP for €320m and lands a €1.25bn contract with it
Tata Consultancy Services is buying MHP, the management and IT consultancy Porsche has owned for years, for €320m, and signing a five-year engagement with the carmaker worth €1.25bn on top of it. The two halves are what make the deal worth reading, b...
Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones
Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. The chip pulls computing, graphics, AI processing, and imaging onto a sin...
Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny
In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to slow it down and avoid a "catastrophic intersection collision."
Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training
A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:2...
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards
Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity.
Velocity named AdTech Platform of the Year as AI reshapes digital advertising
Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages, search queries, social feeds, mobile apps, and increasingly connected television. Now, as consumers move from clicking through inter...
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted
Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone.In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of...