David Silver is chasing superhuman intelligence with a $1bn seed

David Silver, a British AI researcher known for his role at Google’s DeepMind lab, has helped build some of the most influential AI systems and is now leading his own ambitious start-up. He is in th [...]

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical inf [...]

GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions

Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, [...]

Tesla will no longer release the Cybertruck range extender

Tesla has scrapped its plans to sell a range extender for the Cybertruck, the automaker has notified customers who have previously paid a $2,000 reservation fee for the $16,000 add-on. Based on copies [...]

OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $10 [...]

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge lau [...]

Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just p [...]

Jerry quits Ben & Jerry's in fight with Unilever

The co-founder of the ice cream brand says he is leaving since the parent company no longer allows the brand to stand behind social issues [...]

Meta announces Blumhouse Horrorverse experience for Horizon

Meta and Blumhouse are launching the Horrorverse social experience on Horizon on May 22, featuring villains like M3GAN and Babyface. [...]