Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.

Zillow laid off more than 500 people on Tuesday, about 7% of its staff and its largest cut of the year. The Seattle property company made the move one day before it reports quarterly earnings. It has [...]

Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform

Cracken, a San Francisco-based applied AI lab focused on offensive cybersecurity, has launched a self-serve version of its proactive security platform. Enterprise security teams and individual practit [...]

Toyota to roll out next-generation hybrid batteries in 2027 as it targets 5 million hybrid sales

Toyota will begin rolling out a new generation of hybrid batteries next year, the automaker said during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. The company will convert existing battery production lin [...]

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 [...]

SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

SpaceX wants to catch a skyscraper falling out of the sky. The company plans to launch its next Starship as soon as this month and, for the first time, try to catch the returning upper stage with the [...]

Europe missed the AI labs but is winning the toolshed

Europe missed out on building the AI labs, and is quietly cashing in anyway. The continent’s established tech and industrial giants have emerged as unexpected winners of the AI boom, according to Re [...]

AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat

AMD has had its best quarter yet, as the chipmaker reported record revenue of $11.5bn for the second quarter, up 50% on a year earlier, as demand for AI hardware kept climbing. The engine was the data [...]

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the [...]

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tec [...]