New Zealand rules out a VPN ban after a fierce privacy backlash
The New Zealand government has ruled out restricting or banning VPNs as part of its planned under-16 social media ban. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and E...
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Toyota moves some Tacoma output to Texas, and Trump claims the credit
Toyota will invest $3.6bn to expand its San Antonio plant and move some Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to Texas. The carmaker announced the plan on Mon...
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU i...
OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job
OpenAI is recruiting an investment-banking expert to help train its AI on the trade. The job listing seeks a “subject matter expert” with at least two years ...
Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan
Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Sc...
South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe
A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. ...
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone
Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool launched as a desktop app in January...
Meta debuts Muse Image, its first AI image model built under Alexandr Wang’s lab
Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, its first image-generation AI model built under the Superintelligence Labs division led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wan...
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Waymo’s robotaxis stalled, snarled traffic, and drove into fireworks on July 4
Waymo’s robotaxis had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, snarled traffic for hours, and one drove over a lit firework and caugh...
Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Mic...
