Two senators give TikTok until 1 September to explain its safety test

Two US senators have written to TikTok about an experiment that switched off a safety feature for roughly 15 million American users. Their letter runs to four pages and sets out 13 questions. It gives [...]

AI can recommend a deal. Governed execution decides whether it should happen

Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends the next move, and does it all in seconds. The speed is real. But a recommendatio [...]

White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list

The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is [...]

Baidu’s Apollo Go is now on Uber in Dubai, with no safety driver

Uber has put Baidu’s driverless robotaxis on its app in Dubai. Book an UberX or an Uber Comfort there now and the app may match you with an Apollo Go vehicle that has nobody in it. A dedicated “Au [...]

Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn

Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for building one. Capital spending reached $9.98bn in three months, up 75% on the sa [...]

Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety mon [...]

Waymo built its own robotaxi chip and published its supplier list

Waymo has published what is in the boot of its robotaxis. A blog post on Thursday set out the architecture of its onboard computer, introduced a custom 5-nanometer chip of its own design, and named th [...]

Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt

Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in [...]

Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together

Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather t [...]