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Tower Semiconductor up 17% after beat-and-raise quarter
The Israel-based foundry is benefiting from surging demand for radio frequency and power management chips used in AI data centre networking
Kraken's parent company and Franklin Templeton just made the strongest case yet that tokenised finance is moving from...
The partnership between a $1.7 trillion asset manager and the company behind one of the world's largest crypto exchanges aims to put professionally managed funds on blockchain rails, a step that would have been unthinkable three years ago
Commerce Department removes AI security test details
The U.S. Department of Commerce deleted a webpage describing a deal to let the government test artificial intelligence models from Google, xAI and Microsoft before public release.
Microsoft's $26bn return on OpenAI is the easy part of the maths the harder question is what happens when the partner...
Microsoft has generated more than $26 billion in revenue from its relationship with OpenAI, more than doubling the $13 billion it invested in the AI company between 2019 and 2023, according to a report by The Information
Google is killing the Chromebook brand to chase the AI laptop market, and the gamble reveals how thoroughly Microsoft...
Googlebooks replaces ChromeOS with an Android-based system built around Gemini, marking the most significant platform shift in Google's hardware strategy since the original Chromebook launched in 2011
Altman's testimony paints Musk as a controlling benefactor who wanted OpenAI to pass to his children and ranked resea...
The OpenAI chief executive told the court there was a 'morale boost' when Musk left the board
Anthropic's decision to void unauthorised share sales exposes the fiction behind crypto's $1.6 trillion tokenised AI...
A Solana-based token claiming 1:1 exposure to Anthropic shares crashed 34% after the company said any transfer without board approval is void, revealing that billions of dollars in implied valuation rested on contracts the issuer refuses to recognise
Isomorphic Labs' $2.1bn raise is a bet that DeepMind's Nobel Prize-winning science can become a pharmaceutical business
The Alphabet spinout has never dosed a patient, has pushed clinical trials back by a year, and is now valued at roughly $10 billion, a premium that rests on the conviction that AI will compress the $2 billion, decade-long drug development process into something dramatically faster and cheaper
SwitchBot's $700 companion robots are adorable, unnecessary, and a subscription trap dressed in fur
The KATA Friends robots combine genuine technical sophistication with a business model that puts your AI pet into hibernation if you stop paying, raising questions about what companionship means when it comes with a monthly bill
Binance's $10bn fraud prevention claim is impressive on paper, but the numbers deserve scrutiny
The exchange says AI-powered security systems saved millions of users from scams and phishing over 15 months, a scale of intervention that raises questions about both the effectiveness of the tools and the severity of the threats facing crypto users
Bluey joins Apple Arcade playdate across multiple games
Bluey will appear in a series of exclusive playdate events across Apple Arcade titles, the company said in an announcement.
Kraken's Flexline is a bet that crypto lending can work without blowing up this time
The exchange's fixed-rate loan product targets businesses and wealthy holders who want to borrow against their coins rather than sell them, a proposition that collapsed spectacularly in the last cycle and is now being rebuilt with different safeguards
Amazon launches 30-minute Amazon Now delivery
Amazon rolls out its 30-minute Amazon Now service across multiple US cities.
Instructure's ransom deal with Canvas hackers rewards a criminal playbook that schools will now pay for twice
The company that hosts coursework for 41% of American universities ignored the first breach, got hacked again during finals week, and appears to have paid to make the problem go away, setting a precedent the education sector cannot afford
MARA's $1.5bn Bitcoin fire sale marks the moment a crypto miner became a power company
The largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner is buying a gas-fired power plant, retiring mining hardware and telling investors that 90% of its capacity could be repurposed for AI, a pivot that says as much about the economics of mining as it does about the demand for data centres
Vapi's $500m valuation and Amazon Ring deal mark the moment AI voice agents stopped being experimental
The startup processes up to five million calls daily and has replaced Ring's entire inbound support operation, a deployment that says more about where enterprise AI is heading than any number of chatbot demos
Encrypted messaging between Android and iPhone finally arrives, two years after Apple dragged its feet on RCS
The rollout of end-to-end encrypted RCS closes a privacy gap that left billions of cross-platform text conversations unprotected, but the journey to get here says more about corporate incentives than it does about security
REPLIQA joins a crowded field betting that quantum computing can crack biology, but the science is further along than...
The new programme arrives as IBM simulates a 12,000-atom protein on quantum hardware and Algorithmiq wins a $2 million Wellcome prize for quantum-enabled drug discovery, suggesting the field is moving from theoretical promise to early practical results
MoonPay launches AI trading agent after acquiring Dawn Labs
OpenAI's $4bn consulting company is an admission that selling AI models is not enough, and a direct challenge to the...
The launch of the OpenAI Deployment Company, backed by TPG and staffed through the acquisition of Edinburgh-based Tomoro, borrows Palantir's playbook