Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers [...]

UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check

Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group [...]

Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres

Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal o [...]

An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.

The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted t [...]

Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces

Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VE [...]

SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targetin [...]

Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom

Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will si [...]

New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts

Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The [...]

Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3?

Social media has been ablaze with eye-popping demonstrations of the model’s prowess. [...]