Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for ‘obscure’ Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github

A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.

Beyond AI scribes: Aisel raises €1.7M to tackle psychiatry’s capacity crisis

Aisel Health, the Danish HealthTech company building an Operating System (OS) purpose-built for psychiatry and mental health, today announced it has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed round. The round was…

China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose

China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter te…

Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new
Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new

Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cer…

Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review u…

OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber capability. Its new token-level monitoring carries roughly 20% compute overhead and is no…

Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street
Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street

Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It has also completed its first customer delivery, a rack shipped to Jane Street. Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation, …

Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding
Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding

Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn). That is dow…

Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic
Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic

The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contra…

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation
EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation, according to Business Insider. Katie Roof reported the round on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with it. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks to lead it. The details …