Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months

Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the [...]

Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight

Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addi [...]

IQE bets on AI data-centre demand to drive 20% sales growth in 2026

IQE, the Cardiff-based maker of compound semiconductor wafers, expects revenue to grow by more than 20% in 2026, betting that surging AI data-centre demand for its light-carrying materials will pull [...]

The Odyssey in 4DX has viewers fighting for their lives

The Odyssey 4DX reactions reveal what to expect from the moving seats, wind, water, fog, and other effects during the movie. [...]

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 [...]

Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet

The Galaxy Card pays 5% back on Samsung purchases and lives entirely inside Samsung Wallet, as the company signals plans that run beyond a single co-branded card. Samsung has launched its first credit [...]

Netflix wants ‘AI fluency’ from everyone, but craft is still scarce

When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer†[...]

Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond its home turf. The company [...]

A rare bird appeared in Brazil. AI had put it there.

A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Br [...]