Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to [...]

China is earning roughly $500m an hour from exports, and AI-related goods are doing the heavy lifting

China’s export earnings have reached roughly $500m an hour, according to a Bloomberg calculation based on the latest customs data, with AI-related goods accounting for about half of the year-on-year [...]

LG’s $2 Billion lansing battery plant is now building cells

LG Energy Solution began production on Tuesday at its $2bn Lansing plant, which was originally a GM joint venture before GM sold its stake in December 2024. It will make cells for Toyota’s 2027 High [...]

Anthropic curbs make the case for sovereign AI, Upstage chief says

When the US government ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to its most capable models, and the company switched them off worldwide rather than try to comply selectively, it handed every advocate o [...]

Reddit Is Making Some Mobile Web Readers Log In or Use the App Instead

The company says it's a limited test on a small set of users who frequently browse without being logged in. There may be some ways around it. [...]

AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.

The enterprise software industry spent two decades selling seats. Buy a licence for every employee who needs access, multiply by the number of employees, and the revenue model was as predictable as th [...]

Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric deliver [...]

Apple spent a decade waiting for developers to build Wallet passes. Now it is letting users build their own.

Apple has spent more than a decade trying to get every gym, cinema, airline, and transit system on Earth to build native passes for its Wallet app. Most have not. The gym down your street still gives [...]

A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.

  Katie Haun has raised $1 billion for two new venture funds at Haun Ventures, split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles to be deployed over the next two to three years. The capital will go [...]