Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the second quarter

Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2bn for the quarter, up 106% from the same period last year, and then did something it has never done before by guiding a full year ahead. The shares slipped about 1.3% [...]

Barret Zoph is going back to Google, six years and two startups later

Barret Zoph is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, returning to the organisation he spent six years in before it was DeepMind at all. He announced the move on Wednesday, arriving th [...]

Rising costs of the token consumption race

Lately, we have seen a surge in a practice called Tokenmaxxing. More and more companies are tracking their employees’ productivity with tokens spent on AI usage. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, summari [...]

Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude

Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as [...]

Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads

Poland’s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M, roughly $291M, over scams and false advertising on Facebook an [...]

Apple confirms its ‘Surprise and shine’ event for 9 September

Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the tagline “Surprise and shine” and an invitation showing a sun rising behind th [...]

Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country

Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform’s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after [...]

London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind

Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted op [...]

What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch

The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American d [...]