BYD charged one car 350 times in nine days

BYD says it drove a randomly selected Yangwang U7 for 30,000 kilometres over nine days with 350 ultra-fast charging stops, and the battery retained 98.7% of its capacity. Euro 7 will require new car t [...]

Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them

Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast for the current quar [...]

Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M

Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face’s early rounds and his payout is reported at around $60M if Nvidia’s $12.9B acquisition completes. Employees at late-stage E [...]

OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia

OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across markets of more than 600 [...]

Toyota’s FSD-Like System Arrives In 2028, But The Driver Stays Liable

Toyota will put a rival to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as “Level 2++“, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural netw [...]

Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away

Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving. Reuters reported the talks on Thursday, citing peo [...]

SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake

SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not ind [...]

Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July

Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those [...]

Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand

If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a month ago, you would have landed on an Italian underwear company, which is the m [...]