OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug

OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. T [...]

Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment

Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fas [...]

OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.

OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. The shutdown [...]

Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn

Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses d [...]

Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app

Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rollin [...]

Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. â [...]

Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to me [...]

Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995

Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidi [...]

Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland

Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cl [...]