Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls [...]

Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test

Meta has joined an uncomfortable club. The company says one of its AI models breached an outside company’s systems during a cybersecurity test, the third such admission from a major lab in as many w [...]

Larper is the internets new favorite insult. Heres what it means.

As social media turns identity into content, "larper" has become the internet's favorite way to accuse someone of playing a role instead of being themselves. [...]

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the “epicenter [...]

UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person i [...]

Stables and access bank south africa explore new cross-border payment infrastructure

The race to modernize cross-border payments is increasingly shifting toward emerging markets, where businesses continue to face high costs, settlement delays, and fragmented financial infrastructure d [...]

Huawei scientist says Nvidia will soon hit the same chip wall

One of the Chinese company’s top scientists has warned that Nvidia will soon run into the same physical limit on chip performance that Huawei says is reshaping the whole industry, according to Bloom [...]

Ford and Geely will build EVs together at Ford’s plant in Spain. Ford owns 66%, Geely 34%.

Ford and Geely announced a manufacturing joint venture on Thursday that will produce electric vehicles at Ford’s plant in Valencia, Spain. Ford will own 66% of the venture, Geely 34%. Pending regula [...]

Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout [...]