Meta’s policy chief Joel Kaplan will leave the company in 2027
Meta’s policy chief Joel Kaplan will leave the company in 2027

Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, will leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years, Bloomberg reported. He will stay through the US midterm elections. No successor was named, but president Dina Powell McCormick and chief legal of…

OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say i…

Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash
Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash

Anthropic has told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of its own draft AI safety bill. The leaked text drew days of criticism from the AI safety community. The confidential draft was published by Politico on Friday. Anthropic has been circulating it on …

US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents
US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents

Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, accordin…

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not indepen…

Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in…

Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit
Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit

At the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, the German government entered into an agreement with Nvidia on Monday, when Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the two-day event by addressing Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO. The economy ministry has entered into a …

Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum
Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum in Europe. The four companies announced it on Monday in a joint release. The spectrum is for mobile satellite services (MSS),…

“Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf
“Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf

Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. “I called Google, Google Maps. See, Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my ass.” Donald Trump, at a rally in Highland Heights, …

US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order covers third-party tools built on DeepSeek’s models, …