Apple sets 28 October event, expected to bring its first touchscreen Mac
Apple sets 28 October event, expected to bring its first touchscreen Mac

Apple has confirmed a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on 28 October. Bloomberg reports it will show its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, an entry-level M6 MacBook Pro, a new iMac and an OLED iPad mini. Apple has not confirmed any …

Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform
Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform

Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habits and the way we make choices have changed, including where we eat, resta…

Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO
Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO

Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays, Bloomberg reported, citing…

Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case
Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case

The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits.The justices heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global on Wednesday…

Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves
Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves

Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global content organisation, from scripted and unscripted series to film and live e…

Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per…

CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics
CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics

CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a “Large Physics Model“, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconst…

Nvidia and Apple each gave $25M to Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post says
Nvidia and Apple each gave $25M to Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post says

Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given. The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, wh…

Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record
Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in Stockholm that CoreWeave’s cost of capital is decreasing and that Nvidia does not need to backstop the company. On the same day CoreWeave’s five-year credit default swaps hit a record 1,194.5 basis points, pricing a more …

Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace
Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace

Glean has no plans to raise more money and no concrete plans to go public, founder and chief executive Arvind Jain told TNW. The enterprise AI company could list if it wanted to, he said, and it is getting its internal processes ready. But the AI indus…