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The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are.

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data when they grant permission to the app. 

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company’s bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.

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Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart’s connected TV advertising platform.

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla’s car business.

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year.

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India’s zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won’t occur until the end of the decade.

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It’s another step towards decoupling apps from models.

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when … Read more

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