Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…

Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, whi…

Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain

Nvidia and Palantir have announced today a joint product for running AI over corporate supply chains without handing the underlying data to anyone else, and the first customer is Nvidia, which is using it on its own. It pairs Palantir’s Foundry, its Ar…

A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies…

Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide
Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide

Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Met…

Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans
Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans

Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across …

Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment
Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January …

Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999
Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999

Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ul…

LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.
LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.

A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…

Suno launches AI music models trained on licensed Warner and BMG catalogue
Suno launches AI music models trained on licensed Warner and BMG catalogue

Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. “As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generat…