Europe built the world’s largest electric plane. It flew in New York

Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, [...]

Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new

Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. “It is bittersweet t [...]

Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address

Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. [...]

OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Co [...]

eBay sent them a bloody pig mask. Now it owes $56m, and no NDA.

The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they set out to destroy for writing a c [...]

Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chat [...]

Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnin [...]

A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery

An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic [...]

CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company

China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Mornin [...]