Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Bus…
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an…
CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach
The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year.
ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy
Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car’s los…
California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012
California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping rolling resistance from 2029 and tightening it in 2033. Eur…
TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs
TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment syste…
Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed
A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. Th…
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few …
Audi’s China-only EVs are coming to Europe, and they cost less than local models
A German company is importing Audi’s China-only E5 Sportback and E7X, models Audi never intended to sell in Europe, and registering them for road use. Even after shipping and homo…
Xiaomi’s profit drops again as the memory crunch squeezes its phones
Xiaomi’s profit fell again in the second quarter. A global memory shortage kept pushing up the cost of its phones. The Chinese company posted its third straight quarterly profit d…
Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects
Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from Integrity Growth Partners. It is the fi…
You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason
Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
It's the data, stupid.
‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge
A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the st…
Alphabet raises A$5.5bn in Australia, more than doubling a record Apple set in 2015
Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start …
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the tu…
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post.…
SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history
SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a li…
Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new
Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this…
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres fr…
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each …
Xiaomi’s first EV just passed half a million deliveries
Xiaomi’s SU7 sedan passed 500,000 cumulative deliveries on 17 August, 28.5 months after the first handover. Deliveries of that model are down 43.6% this year, even as the company’…
This 1918 EV Had 42 Batteries And More Range Than A 2011 Leaf
A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The …