An AI agent deleted a stranger from a gym waitlist. The API let it

An Australian man named Andrew asked his AI agent to book him into a popular gym class. The agent booked the class. Then it deleted a stranger. The ABC’s national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Spec [...]

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

Mark Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion Future Is For Everyone Fund on Monday. It will invest directly in the American communities where Meta builds data centres. The commitment sits inside a 6,500-wor [...]

The FCC wants to ban DJI drones it already approved. LiDAR and thermal cameras are now “military-grade.”

The FCC is considering banning DJI drones that it already approved for sale in the United States. The proposal would expand the agency’s existing drone restrictions to target specific capabilities: [...]

Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it

Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs [...]

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. [...]

Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing

In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisati [...]

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie [...]

Google is testing a homepage without a Search button

Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch s [...]

Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.

Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was le [...]