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Japanese exchange loses $300 million in bitcoin

A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange reportedly had $300 million worth of bitcoin stolen, according to News Explorer.

Police arrest suspect after incendiary device thrown at OpenAI chief Sam Altman's home

San Francisco police detain 20-year-old after attack on CEO's home and further threats near the company headquarters.

Alibaba confirms HappyHorse AI video model after leaderboard surge fuels speculation

Chinese tech giant claims top-ranked video generation model as rivals OpenAI and ByteDance stumble in the sector

Treasury and Fed summon bank CEOs for emergency meeting over Anthropic's new AI model

Bessent and Powell warn Wall Street chiefs of risks from Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful new AI model withheld from public release.

OpenAI warns macOS users to update apps after supply chain security breach

OpenAI said its analysis concluded the signing certificate present in the workflow was likely not successfully extracted by the malicious payload

Tesla wins first European approval for self-driving software in the Netherlands

Dutch regulator clears Full Self-Driving Supervised for highways and city streets after 18 months of testing

Meta poaches three OpenAI Stargate executives to build out its AI compute arm

Three senior figures who helped drive OpenAI's data centre push are joining Meta's newly formed compute unit, in the latest sign of an intensifying war for AI infrastructure talent

AWS weighs selling its in-house chips externally as Jassy flags near-sold-out AI capacity

Amazon's chief executive used his annual shareholder letter to float the chip business as a potential standalone operation amid surging demand for AI infrastructure

Microsoft cuts Windows 365 prices 20%

Microsoft is reducing Windows 365 cloud PC prices by 20 percent, the company told channel partners, with the change coming into effect next month and aimed at small and medium businesses.

Google extends Intel SmartNIC partnership as custom chip business tops $1bn on run rate

The two companies are jointly developing next-generation infrastructure processing units as Intel's custom silicon arm crosses a significant revenue milestone

Gemini adds notebooks, flashcards and practice exams as Google targets student market

New study tools let users consolidate lecture notes, whiteboards and past chats into a single AI workspace capable of generating revision materials and custom tests

Kraken lists BONZO as Hedera-based lending protocol joins major exchange

The open-source borrowing and lending platform, adapted from Aave v2, supports permissionless loans and dynamic interest rates on the Hedera network

Google brings restaurant booking to AI Mode in Search as UK diners drive surge in table queries

AI Mode can now search live availability across multiple platforms and surface direct reservation links based on conversational prompts.

Kraken lists QUAI token as Quai Network brings energy-backed crypto to major exchange

Users can deposit QUAI by navigating to the Funding section

Gemini adds interactive simulations to chat as Google pushes beyond static AI responses

Users can now manipulate rotating molecules, orbital mechanics and physics models directly inside Gemini conversations.

Fitbit expands AI health coach preview to 37 countries with multilingual support and VO2 Max integration

The expansion covers both free and Premium plan users on iOS and Android

GeForce NOW adds Samson and Rayman anniversary edition to cloud streaming library

The title makes use of ray-traced global illumination

Google enrolls 400 universities in free AI skills accelerator spanning all 50 states

The programme gives students, faculty and staff access to a credit-recommended AI certificate built around employer-defined job skills.

Kraken details unified API infrastructure for automated crypto trading across spot and futures

The exchange, active since 2011, offers institutional and retail traders REST, WebSocket and FIX 4.4 access across more than 640 cryptoassets from a single account.

NVIDIA adds Marvell to NVLink Fusion ecosystem

The chip giant said the semiconductor provider will join its NVLink Fusion ecosystem to link the semiconductor vendor into NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence infrastructure.