The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sund…
The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas le…
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 in…
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 to…
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 compan…
Is season 5 of Outer Banks, its final outing, actually good? Well, if you wanted to know what critics think in reviews, Rotten Tomatoes is not helpful at the moment.
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 overs…
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 on …
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, bec…
New research suggests deep-sea vent metals powered early metabolism before enzymes existed, revealing how life may have begun making essential molecules on Earth.