Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts

Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported by Reuter [...]

China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports

China is considering tightening export controls on its home-grown artificial intelligence models and the chips that run them, according to the Financial Times, in a move that would push Beijing’s t [...]

An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it

An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABC’s national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Spec [...]

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tec [...]

Hud CEO Roee Adler says runtime intelligence will define the next era of software operations

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, with coding agents now capable of producing large volumes of production-ready code in minutes. Yet while writing software h [...]

Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot

A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year’s $243m Florida verdict. The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a [...]

OVHcloud confirms its outlook as public cloud growth accelerates past 20%

Europe’s largest cloud company posted faster third-quarter growth and reaffirmed full-year guidance, with its public cloud segment back above 20%. OVHcloud, the Roubaix-based group that France keeps [...]

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 [...]

H.B. Fuller nears a $628 million deal for UK wound-care maker AMS, over its own investor’s objections

The US adhesives group has agreed a 285 pence-a-share cash offer for Advanced Medical Solutions, even as an activist shareholder demands it abandon the pursuit. H.B. Fuller, the St Paul, Minnesota adh [...]