44,000 object to Palantir’s NHS data platform, the Guardian reports
44,000 object to Palantir’s NHS data platform, the Guardian reports

More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to stop the NHS’s Federated Data Platform handling their health records. The platform runs on Palantir software. The campaign asks NHS England to stop the platform sharing, storing or using their data…

300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress

Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tue…

DoorDash Air unveils a drone delivery system, and cannot yet fly it out of sight
DoorDash Air unveils a drone delivery system, and cannot yet fly it out of sight

DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air and will begin pilot deliveries in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Manna, which flew more than 300,000 deliveries from Dublin and Cork, paused Irish operations in June for want of a …

Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter
Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter

Boeing will build the US Navy’s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC…

Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car’s factory slot
Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car’s factory slot

Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a £170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised t…

America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one
America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one

The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order…

FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the pro…

DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages
DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages

DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg’s testing found it giving prices that differed from the app, which in Europe is a…

Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design
Amazon launches a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a new remote design

Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Digital Markets Act cannot require Amazon to restore it, because none of it…

“AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk
“AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the president’s lunch with tech leaders. He began by …