When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?

Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended. [...]

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you wa [...]

China's Moonshot AI is seeking a $50 billion valuation in pre-IPO funding talks

The Chinese AI startup plans to open discussions in August on a final fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing as soon as this year [...]

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack. [...]

Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans [...]

Sony's FX5 cinema camera finally offers open gate and RAW 5K recording

Sony has just unveiled its latest cinema camera that may foreshadow some long-awaited features in its consumer mirrorless lineup. [...]

Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.

Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier. The figure, disclosed separately from capital expenditure [...]

Agentic coding goes hands free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop

Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. [...]

EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA

On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services Act by leaving minors’ accounts open to adults, the latest escalation in a p [...]