Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning [...]

Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself

Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to t [...]

4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature

For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of us just accepted it. But after a decade of data scandals, tracking revelatio [...]

A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play

Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. [...]

TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023

TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of under-13s use the platform and collected their data without parental consent. Irelan [...]

Anthropic could raise $100bn, ten times Europe’s largest listing in decades

Anthropic could raise around $100bn in a listing as early as October, exceeding SpaceX’s record, with backers modelling a valuation of at least $2tn. The Financial Times reports that senior executiv [...]

Letara raises $16mn for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive

Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about ¥2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use plastic as fuel and are not legally classified as explosives. Germany’s HyImpulse r [...]

Researchers found 768 leaked AWS keys that still work, and the containment policy leaves plenty possible

Truffle Security found 768 leaked AWS keys granting full control of corporate accounts, including 526 root keys, with 88% of tested credentials still active. AWS applies a quarantine policy to keys it [...]

AI data centres are taking the capacitors carmakers need

Chinese carmakers say printed circuit boards and multilayer ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short globally, with prices more than tripling over the past year because of AI data centre demand. Automo [...]