Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice

Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory. Reuters then found a [...]

Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing

In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisati [...]

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model

Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model. The move gives shape to a retreat [...]

Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead

Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pa [...]

Apple hit $5tn by refusing to play the AI game everyone else is losing

Apple has become the second company in history worth $5tn. It got there by being the one big-tech giant that refused to bet its balance sheet on AI. The iPhone maker briefly touched a $5.04tn market v [...]

New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling

Modern electric vehicles retain an average of 97 percent of their original range after three years and 95 percent after five years, according to a new analysis by EV data company Recurrent. For a 2026 [...]

The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights

The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-w [...]

A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, t [...]

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 [...]