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I have come to believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is also one of the most expensive: the idea that technology can repair a business that has never streamlined how its processes actually work.
Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory costs that its own vice president said had risen from $2.80 per gigabyte to $12.
Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe’s most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion.
GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view.
FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its…
Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others.
Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship.
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year on year but well above the 461,000 analysts expected, with American electric sales down 47% in August after the federal credit expired.
Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders.
Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the document.
More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group.
Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange.
Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said.
The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune.
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm.
In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day.
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