Woodside pauses Scarborough gas work after Greenpeace boards platform
Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters climbed aboard. Early start-up work at the site has stopped, Aust…
World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports
The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank’s chief knowledge officer, s…
Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds
Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs to cloning and cryonics. MIT Technology Review laid out the…
Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case
The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits…
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account
A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.
Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, accord…
Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs
Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two riv…
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO…
Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports
Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday aft…
Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since J…
Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join
More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI fe…
Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his res…
Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini
Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday.…
Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Ari…
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.
Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough.…
Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Franc…
Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says
Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come …
Musk tells Isaacson only AI and robots can fix US debt, Axios reports
Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the com…
TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose …
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands w…
Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves
Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global con…