Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead

Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked wh [...]

Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export

Hidden code in ChatGPT’s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp. An APK teardown by Android Authority fo [...]

Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment

Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, declaring general availability of India South Central on August 6. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale [...]

Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking

SpaceXAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on Thursday, making editing a first-class capability rather than an afterthought. The update adds a magic wand tool that changes only the region a user points a [...]

You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty

For years, critics of Europe’s AI strategy have made the same argument: while America builds artificial intelligence, Europe writes laws for it. The EU AI Act became the clearest expression of that [...]

Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness

Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. “This notion that somehow [...]

Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.

Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a n [...]

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climat [...]

Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.

The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered [...]