Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data

Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The dat [...]

Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift

Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There [...]

Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model

A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology [...]

Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student

Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposa [...]

Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight

Nik Storonsky, the man behind Revolut, has closed a $500m second fund for QuantumLight, the algorithmic venture-capital firm he co-founded to let software, rather than partners, decide where the money [...]

Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focus [...]

How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline annou [...]

CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnera [...]

An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. T [...]