OpenAI ships a Messages plugin that summarises who you talk to and what about

The ChatGPT desktop app can now read your iMessage history and send messages on your behalf. OpenAI shipped the integration this week for Macs running Apple silicon, and Apple, a company it is reporte [...]

Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares

Revolut has asked its shareholders to let Nik Storonsky borrow up to $250mn against his stake in the company, five times what the current rules permit. The request went to investors last week as part [...]

Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning [...]

GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw

A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eigh [...]

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 [...]

A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too

A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher w [...]

Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.

The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to [...]

xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools

xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musk’s AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota’s attorney gen [...]

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thir [...]