OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job

OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agen [...]

Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk

Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on h [...]

US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply

US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switc [...]

Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not T [...]

Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-driving safety data

Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters [...]

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks [...]

Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was le [...]

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Globa [...]

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a se [...]