Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left

The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America’s biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report has a blunt finding. Three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed [...]

Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading op [...]

Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In th [...]

The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private

The largest leveraged buyout in history has closed. Electronic Arts is now private. A group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund bought it for $55bn, alongside Silver Lake and Jared Kushner� [...]

Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%

SpaceX has reported its first earnings as a public company, and the biggest number was not the one about rockets. The company that launches most of the world’s payloads made more money selling AI co [...]

Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.

Uber wants to own the robotaxi era without building the cars. “Building a great autonomous driver is one part of building a successful autonomous business,” chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told [...]

87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resultin [...]

A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds

A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it [...]

ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped

GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live Chat [...]