OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive

OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanli [...]

China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins

China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016, according to customs data released on 14 July. Five months in [...]

Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI

While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fi [...]

Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.

Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing [...]

Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left [...]

Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure, and narrows what Azure means

Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the June quarter under a new two-segment structure. The European Commission reached a [...]

Coder launches Agent Relay with SpaceXAI, running Cursor’s cloud agents on customer infrastructure

Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor’s cloud agents run inside a customer’s own infrastructure, with SpaceXAI as launch partner and the product in [...]

The European Commission is looking at Oracle’s licensing, two months after settling with SAP

The European Commission is gathering information on how Oracle licenses its software in the cloud, following a similar approach it used against SAP two months ago. Reuters reported the inquiry on Mond [...]

Volvo’s new app grades your driving and sends the grade to your insurer

Volvo is launching Safety Coach, an optional app that scores braking, acceleration and cornering, with high scorers offered cheaper usage-based insurance through Volvia. It starts in Sweden and Norway [...]