Foreign-brand phone shipments to China rose 1.8% in April, CAICT data shows

Foreign-branded smartphone shipments to China, a category dominated by Apple, rose 1.8% year-on-year in April to 3.59 million handsets, according to Reuters calculations based on figures published by [...]

China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal tr [...]

Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own [...]

a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI

Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips [...]

Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new [...]

Windscribe's bizarre AI Hitler marketing stunt sparks fury and VPN subscription cancellations

A bizarre social media stunt featuring an AI-generated Adolf Hitler has landed Windscribe in hot water, with users canceling subscriptions and questioning the VPN provider's extensive reliance on [...]

Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street

Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It has also completed its first customer delivery, a rack shipped to Jane Str [...]

No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around [...]

Tesla whistleblower describes dangerous understaffing while testing Full Self-Driving in Houston

Javier Medrano, a former Tesla fleet operations manager, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company turned its Houston Full Self-Driving test fleet into 24/7 “rolling hazards” by aggressively sc [...]