Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports
Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports

Parents at an elementary school next to Tesla’s Fremont car plant want more time to question a plan that could raise emissions from the factory, Matthew Brown reported for SFGate. Lila Bringhurst Elementary sits less than 1,000 feet from the plant. Tes…

Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads
Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads

Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The ch…

Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China
Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as …

Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing
Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing

An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary re…

Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science
Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science

Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and…

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe
Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than brandin…

President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’
President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’

US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to …

US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme
US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme

The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The other firms that are affected are Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, …

Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist

Europe’s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going…

Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years
Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years

Quantum computing, healthcare and energy security are the fields Nvidia wants to strengthen with commitments it values at $1 billion. The money will be spread over the next five years. The company announced the commitments on Thursday at the Science: A…