Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war

Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link fighte [...]

Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation

The former OpenAI chief scientist, who now runs Safe Superintelligence, gave the figure under oath. It places him among the largest individual shareholders in the company. Ilya Sutskever, the former c [...]

Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain

For years, the AI boom has run through a handful of factory floors in Taiwan. That dependence is starting to look risky enough that even Nvidia and Google are shopping for a backup, and the unlikely n [...]

OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an [...]

India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions

India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of [...]

Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028

Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday in a PlayStation Blog post. New games released after that date will b [...]

A retina chip that restores sight is going on sale in Europe

Geographic atrophy is the worst form of age-related macular degeneration. For most people who have it, the centre of the world slowly greys out. Faces blur. Words vanish. There is no cure, only treatm [...]

Your next privacy breach might not leak any data at all

For decades, protecting privacy has meant one thing: stop personal data from leaking out. Gartner thinks that idea is about to break. By 2029, most privacy incidents will come not from leaked personal [...]

France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law conve [...]