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 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 …
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…
Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three years, the company announced. The metal will be used in several Apple products, including the casing of the iPhone Duo, its first foldabl…
Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process au…
Green SM, a ride-hailing firm owned by Vietnam’s Vingroup, has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles. It starts with 500 VinFast VF 8 SUVs and full-time drivers. The US is its ninth market, and the launch puts more cars from sister compa…
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 …
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, …
Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules. They would p…
Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday. Existing investors a16z …