Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old

Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general’s office before the filing. What that account cou [...]

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificia [...]

Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters

X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is s [...]

Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes expo [...]

PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points

An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that [...]

Hyundai has gained more US market share this decade than any carmaker

Hyundai Motor Group has grown its US market share faster than any major carmaker this decade and is investing $26B through 2028 to build at least 80% of its American sales domestically. Its European p [...]

IDC expects Apple to ship 10 million foldable iPhones in year one at $2,500

IDC predicts Apple’s first foldable iPhone will ship more than 10 million units in its first year at a price of $2,500, reviving a category that was heading for a double-digit decline. In the EU the [...]

Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale

Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale’s flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts. Nscale is a London company pr [...]

Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says

Investment firm Kimmeridge says as many as half of the data centres proposed in the United States are at risk of delay or cancellation because of political backlash and the difficulty of building phys [...]