Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10
Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10

Tesla asked Nevada regulators for permission to run up to 5,000 robotaxis across Las Vegas. It was granted 10. The Nevada Transportation Authority set out the limit in an interim order dated 27 July. The cap sits far below what the company requested. T…

OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring
OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring

OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost o…

China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time
China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Or…

Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February
Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February

Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value the software startup at $12 billion or more before the new money, the news agency said. It cited people familiar with the talks. The ro…

Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some
Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some

Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed u…

Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger
Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger

Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’…

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the la…

Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter
Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter

OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losse…

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the …

Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO

Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offering that could rank among the largest ever, Cory Wei…