Dana White Makes Definitive Decision On Francis Ngannou UFC Return

Dana White says he will never work with Francis Ngannou again, calling him a bad guy and putting him on his Oscar De La Hoya list.

OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems

OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems. European organisations face a second constraint the pause does not touch, because Astra still has no EU data zone deployment and no pai…

ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework
ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework

Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the s…

‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Is Another Casualty Of Netflix’s Biggest Problem

The Gentlemen lost a lot of viewership for season 2, but not because of the quality of the show. This is Netflix’s biggest problem it must deal with.

A New Drug Takes Aim At One Of Cancer’s Most Difficult Targets

FDA-approved daraxonrasib targets RAS in metastatic pancreatic cancer, doubling median survival versus chemotherapy and delivering a long-awaited treatment advance.

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in a pilot with OpenAI
Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in a pilot with OpenAI

Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the partnership with OpenAI in a blog post on 10 September. Select US advertisers are already testing it in a pilot. Advertisers who plan and run …

Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss
Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss

Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company pu…

Oracle is spending more on building data centres than it earns in a quarter
Oracle is spending more on building data centres than it earns in a quarter

Oracle told investors this week that it is sitting on $664bn of work it has agreed to do and has not yet done. Accountants call this remaining performance obligations, which is a dense way of saying that customers have signed contracts, the money is pr…

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.