Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario
MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.
Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging…
Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law
Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s economy chief Robert Jenrick…
EU employment law 2026 moved the burden of proof to you
If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took effect in 2026. A fourth…
Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees
Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday…
Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027
Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From February 2027, an app that exceeds the new limits risks two…
Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI
Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technolog…
Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers
Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA
The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Search Engine, alo…
Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029
Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The two signed a joint development…
Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low
Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement three days after KPMG reported that private investment in Si…
Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company
Pinterest’s chief financial officer is leaving for a private, early-stage company, and investors reacted quickly. Julia Donnelly will step down on October 30, Reuters reported, wi…
Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion
Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by B…
OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works
OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati reported the change to The Information, gi…
AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records
A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelinatio…
Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models
Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projecte…
The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later
The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other f…
SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease
SB Energy has handed OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5bn, and it did so to keep OpenAI as a tenant. The Wall Street Journal reported the arrangement on Monday. The direction ma…
AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says
The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to cyber risk is now the most immediate threat to the global finan…
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a …
MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets
An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture …
Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals
The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.