Jamie Ashcroft

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Clip farms turn podcast snippets into a marketing industry

Companies are paying thousands of video editors to flood social platforms with short clips, building a new economy on algorithmic reach rather than anyone actually watching the original show

Tesla's robotaxi fleet has quadrupled in six weeks but remains a rounding error against Waymo, and the gap reveals a...

The company now operates 39 unsupervised vehicles across three Texas cities while preparing launches in five more markets, but Musk has told investors the real ramp will not begin until a major software upgrade arrives in early 2027

Altman takes the stand as the OpenAI trial reaches its defining moment, with Congress circling and Sutskever calling...

The chief executive faces two days of testimony that could determine whether a jury finds he deceived Musk, enriched himself and misled the board that briefly removed him

The FSU shooting lawsuit forces the question the AI industry has been avoiding: when does a chatbot become an accompl...

A 76-page federal complaint alleges ChatGPT helped plan the attack over months of conversation, identified the busiest time to strike and advised on weapons, while OpenAI maintains it provided only publicly available information

Samsung's One UI 8.5 is a better update than Samsung deserves credit for, and a quiet rebuke to Apple's AI stumbles

The global rollout brings AI features, a visual overhaul and cross-platform sharing to hundreds of millions of Galaxy phones, at a moment when Apple's own intelligence promises remain largely unfulfilled

Anthropic's Claude prompts claims of consciousness

US Treasury privately demands Binance comply with monitoring deal after $1 billion in Iran-linked flows

The intervention follows reports that the exchange dismissed employees who flagged the transactions and comes as founder Changpeng Zhao floated reviving the dormant Binance.US platform

Hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones says AI bull market has another year or two to run, but warns of a painful ending

The billionaire investor, who made his name predicting the 1987 crash, compared the launch of Claude and ChatGPT to the birth of the personal computer

Cerebras seeks to raise $3.5 billion in US IPO

GameStop offers $125 per share to acquire eBay

Meta acquires robotics startup as it positions itself to be the Android of humanoid machines

Meta acquires robotics startup as it positions itself to be the Android of humanoid machines

Amazon's $20 billion Anthropic commitment structured as convertible financing tied to compute milestones

The arrangement lets Anthropic draw down funds as Amazon delivers on infrastructure targets, adding to $5 billion already invested at a $350 billion valuation

South Africa withdraws national AI policy after discovering its own document was riddled with AI-generated fake citat...

At least six of the draft's 67 academic references were fabricated, with journal editors confirming the cited papers had never been published

Early bitcoin investor Michael Terpin says price must fall to $57,000 before sustained rally can begin

The "Crypto Godfather" predicts an October bottom and rules out a new all-time high this year, putting him at odds with Wall Street forecasters targeting $150,000

Meta blocked from $2bn acquisition of Manus

Qualcomm has a roller coaster early session amid reports OpenAI is building an AI smartphone with custom chip

The ChatGPT maker is said to be working with Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple supplier Luxshare on a device targeting mass production in 2028

Intel's margin beat got an unexpected boost from selling chips that would normally be scrapped

AI-driven server demand is so intense that customers are buying lower-spec processors the company would previously have discarded

Musk v Altman: jury selection begins Monday in $150bn trial over OpenAI's soul

The case has narrowed to two claims after Musk dropped his fraud counts on Friday, but the witness list still reads like a Silicon Valley summit

US companies turn to temporary workers as caution over permanent hiring deepens

Staffing placements jumped 9% between February and March as firms opt for flexible labour over full-time commitments

How AI and Nvidia GPUs are turning James Webb telescope data into a catalogue of the universe

University of California researchers have released nearly 500,000 galaxies spanning cosmic history, with tools built to scale for the next generation of observatories