Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.

Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality- [...]

OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Co [...]

Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings

Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them dedicated tools for managing listings, communicating with buyers, and tracking sales [...]

Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement

Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US hist [...]

Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls

An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowe [...]

Water UK says AI data centre plans ignore where the water comes from

Britain wants to triple its data centre capacity by 2030. The trade body for the country’s water companies has told ministers there is not enough water to run them. Water UK, which represents Englan [...]

Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months

Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the [...]

Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup

Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Se [...]

Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.

Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024, CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on [...]