The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active …
An Anthropic lawsuit filed in California this week accuses the AI company of overselling its priciest Claude subscriptions. The complaint, brought by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn, claims Anthropic’s “Max 5x” ($100 a month) and “Max 20x” ($200 a …
NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who, or what, is logging into their systems. The identity-security startup, based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a platform to govern both human…
The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to re…
Salesforce acquires Fin, the customer-service AI company formerly known as Intercom, in a deal worth about $3.6bn. The CRM giant signed a definitive agreement on Monday, it said, to fold Fin’s “customer agent” technology into Agentforce, its own fast-g…
The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate bond offering since 2021, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge. It is selling the debt in seven tranches, with maturities running fro…
The Enflame IPO is on. Shanghai Enflame Technology, an AI-chip startup backed by Tencent, has won listing-committee approval to raise about 6 billion yuan ($888m) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR board, according to Bloomberg. It is the last of Ch…
AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity for the high-end IC substrates that AI and high-performance computing chips are built on, the company said. The plan spans…
Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to design and scale the next generation of AI data centres. The deal, announced on 15 June, pairs the French energy-management group with…
Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to …