It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic’s $2.1 million and OpenAI’s $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington, […]
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets – including 36 of the main character Prue alone – which were brought to life by a […]
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. OpenAI’s Codex helped make this “ns2jb” jailbreak, according to Sammy Hajhamid, aka “pepsipu.” It’s a […]
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human […]
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives – shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies? […]
Discord’s latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with “a bunch of symbols,” according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for instructions and context, so these improved previews could be helpful for people sharing information about AI projects […]
Oh sure, SpaceX’s credit risk is pretty high because it’s about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which […]
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company’s internal revenue review and a small business owner’s loan application. Researchers at Claroc reported earlier this week that Muse the web […]
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge – but legal experts say these changes aren’t enough to address their concerns. “This does nothing to restrict the ‘associated with your products or services’ [language] that would let Meta scrape […]
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for “greater precision, consistency and control,” according to an […]
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise’s breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer’s personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai’s robotaxis in Kazakhstan’s capital in the first half of 2027.
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Per Twilio, AI will handle routine customer queries, while people step in for complex cases where judgement, context, and specialised expertise matter most.
According to Wiz, the vulnerabilities affect PHP releases dating back to version 5.4.
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The Australian SAP partner has more than 300 employees and a delivery presence in the Philippines. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027.
The offering uses AI agents and virtual simulations to test automotive software, including rare and safety-critical scenarios, before release.
The partnerships aim to connect AI education and university research with rural challenges, helping young people explore entrepreneurship and develop local solutions.
Nutanix plans to work with NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris to help enterprises and AI cloud providers deploy production AI faster and cheaper.
The VC firm has appointed former Google executive Kishore Kanakamedala as Venture Partner to lead its US expansion and help portfolio companies enter the market.
This follows the discovery of eight eMudhra certificate authorities with weak private keys that could potentially have allowed attackers to create fake website certificates and impersonate legitimate websites.
Reductions announced as third-quarter profits fall short of City expectations
Dependence on the technology risks worsening what Starmer dubbed ‘the warm bath of managed decline’ in Whitehall
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
The company is hiring relatively fewer junior-level staff while increasing the number of managers and meetings
As autonomous software does more, we need to focus on how to control its behaviour and establish accountability
As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions and checking how AI summarizes their messaging. Guest author Toby Coulthard suggests that startups should build these practices in from the outset, preserving human appeal while measuring success through conversions and revenue rather than content volume.
