The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to …
The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles when it is getting ready to face public investors. OpenAI is…
Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an A…
Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable …
Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rule…
The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The …
Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local…
Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round, the company announced on Tuesday. Hummingbird, QED, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle and Deel joined in. The startup has now raised $210 million in total. A…
The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nearly a year in the dark The timeline is the uncomforta…
A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announce…