Trump-backed American Bitcoin posts $57m loss but grows its BTC treasury

American Bitcoin lost money again in the second quarter, and kept buying bitcoin anyway. The Trump-family-backed miner reported a net loss of $57.2m for the three months to June, narrower than the $81 [...]

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthrop [...]

OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical r [...]

South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed

South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit [...]

The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT

The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring [...]

Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen

Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they [...]

Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones

The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. [...]

Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it

A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped [...]

Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn

Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industr [...]