Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer [...]

One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is [...]

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a [...]

China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public gr [...]

Tombot raises $7m to bring its robotic dog Jennie to market

Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 financing round to move its flagship product from development into manufac [...]

Tesla Quietly Enables Power Export On Its Best-Selling EV

Tesla has quietly enabled vehicle-to-load on the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico through an $80 adapter offering two 120-volt outlets and up to 2.4kW. The feature is still unavailable on Mod [...]

Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush

Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US [...]

Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

Unitree’s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide has turned a national success story into an argument about how China prices its l [...]

Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s [...]