Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming
Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.
Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.
Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a button, on newly delivered Airbus A350s. The airline descri…
Volkswagen plans 50,000 more job cuts, taking the total to 100,000
Volkswagen’s supervisory board unanimously approved cutting a further 50,000 jobs, bringing planned reductions to 100,000, and left four German plants without secured production f…
Electric cars outsold every other powertrain in Britain last month
Battery-electric cars took a record 29.8% share of UK registrations in August, outselling every other powertrain, though year-to-date uptake of 25.6% remains below the 33% zero em…
The nonprofit that investigated OpenAI’s rogue agents runs on a $36m grant. The next wave of that money is waiting on the AI IPOs.
American philanthropy is about to absorb something in the region of $40bn a year in new annual spending from AI wealth, Coefficient Giving chief executive Alexander Berger told Se…
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at…
Global payroll has an infrastructure problem, and it is finally getting attention
Cross-border payroll moves more than 200 billion dollars a year, and until recently, nobody was building shared infrastructure for it. As one recent report on the infrastructure g…
A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.
YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 mill…
US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks
A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.
Wacker weighs closing Tennessee polysilicon plant after Trump tariffs, Reuters reports
A German chemicals company is considering closing the American plant that Washington’s new polysilicon tariffs were supposed to protect. Wacker Chemie has lost its last two custom…
Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment
The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.
OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say
A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed until late August. Researchers found more than 15,000 edits on D…
US safety regulator says it is evaluating Tesla’s Cybercab rollout
America’s road safety regulator is looking into Tesla’s newest robotaxi just a day after it began carrying passengers. “NHTSA is in contact with Tesla and is evaluating the situat…
Novo Nordisk Foundation to build $62M quantum chip plant in Copenhagen
Europe is getting a factory for quantum chips rather than another quantum computer. Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is building a 5,300-square-me…
DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data centre, according to Bloomberg. Neither the size of the order nor the chip model has been disclosed, and Deep…
South Korea confirms chip investment talks with US as tariff threat grows
South Korea negotiated tariff protection for its chipmakers, and Washington is pressing for American factories anyway. Semiconductor investment is now part of the broader talks be…
BASF sues Apple over Face ID patents in Texas federal court
The world’s largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday, alleging that dozens of iPhone and iPad models use face authe…
Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe
A proprietary trading firm has just signed one of the largest AI cloud contracts of the year. Jane Street is committing roughly $13bn over five years to Crusoe, the data centre co…
OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks
OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The programme, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, targets wate…
OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, b…
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
New Jersey just legalised cheap plug-in balcony solar panels
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stopping landlords from blocking installation. Germany wrote th…