France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sover [...]

Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds

OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users last month, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to [...]

SailPoint plans to buy Entro to pour non-human identities into its “Agentic Fabric”

The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and pro [...]

1Password acquires Apono to govern what AI agents can do once they’re inside

1Password is buying its way into the agentic enterprise. The Toronto identity-security company said on Monday it has acquired Apono, an Israeli startup that decides, in real time, what every human, ma [...]

SoftBank and OpenAI launch “Patching as a Service” to defend Japan’s critical infrastructure

SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies be [...]

Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, a [...]

Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming

Qualcomm’s chief executive thinks the app as you know it is on the way out, and that the phone in your pocket is about to lose its place at the centre of your digital life. ‘Agents are going to be [...]

SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO

SpaceX has made it official. In a filing on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s newly public rocket company said it had signed a binding agreement to buy Anysphere, the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cu [...]

Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes expo [...]