Instagram is paying some YouTubers to bring their long videos across. It has offered select creators $50,000 to $500,000 to post long-form work to Features, its new 90-minute format. Sydney Bradley and Lucia Moses reported for Business Insider, citing people familiar with the deals. The deals are not exclusive. Instagram wants creators to post their […]

Hubble has no engine of its own, and it is slowly sinking. NASA now wants companies to say how they could lift the 36-year-old telescope higher, service it, or steer it down safely, the agency said on Friday. The request for information went out on 29 October, and responses are due by 30 November. NASA’s […]

Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals, a senior director at Google, wrote in a blog post on Friday. The satellite launched on 1 October for Project Suncatcher, Google’s […]

A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to throw out the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI. The case is over the gas turbines that power its Colossus 2 data centre. Judge Debra M. Brown ruled on Friday that the turbines are not exempt from air permits as “mobile sources”. She also rejected xAI’s […]

Palantir was caught in Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of War, its chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told Ben Thompson for Stratechery, in an interview published on Thursday. Thompson noted that Anthropic’s work for the US national security system ran through Palantir, and asked whether Sankar regrets it. “Yes, we were stuck in the […]

Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x plan Ultra. Prices stay the same, the company said on X on Friday. Verified Ultra accounts no longer have a limit that […]

Game developers have been hitting refusals from Claude Code since late October, some on projects they say they have a right to build. Bruno Ferreira reported the complaints for Tom’s Hardware on Saturday, citing a wave of issues on Claude Code’s public GitHub tracker. TNW read the issues. Anthropic has not announced a change, and […]

Salesforce has agreed to buy Rune Technologies. The US startup’s AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line. Salesforce announced the deal on Thursday. Rune will join Missionforce, the defence business Salesforce launched a year ago. Salesforce did not disclose the price. It is paying $375m in cash and shares, Margaux MacColl […]

Alphabet’s Google is in talks with the US Defense Department to help protect the data behind Golden Dome, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Sana Pashankar and Kiel Porter cited people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are not public. TNW has not independently verified the report. Golden Dome is […]

France’s National Assembly has voted to tax companies for every gigabyte of data they send to French internet users. The measure, an amendment to the 2027 budget, would charge content providers €0.055 per gigabyte. Its Socialist authors estimate it would raise €10bn a year. It passed by 11 votes to 10 on Friday, with 14 […]

The European Commission has told EU countries to put national social media bans for children on hold for 12 months. It wants a single EU law instead. Austria is the first country affected, and its plan to keep under-14s off social media is now frozen. Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier announced the pause in Brussels on […]

Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese robotics company Fourier in about three months, and the two are already working on a second version. Jyoti Mann reported the project for The Information on Saturday, citing people familiar with it. The robot is known inside Meta as Max and weighs about 48kg (106 pounds). […]

DeepSeek has released the code for Super-Agent, an experimental AI agent that takes on coding work for a software team. The Chinese AI lab put it on GitHub under the name dsh-superagent, with an MIT licence. The team that builds its agent tools set out the design in a WeChat post on Saturday. DeepSeek is […]

Baseten, the AI inference startup, is set to raise about $2bn at a valuation of up to $30bn, more than double its price in June. Rebecca Torrence and Bailey Lipschultz reported the round for Bloomberg on Friday, citing people familiar with the plans. The round will come in two tranches, according to Bloomberg’s sources. One […]

Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google’s data centre site in Muhos, in the north of the country. The Oulu Police Department is investigating suspected environmental damage at the site, which Google’s local subsidiary, Tuike Finland, runs. The police announced the investigation on Thursday. It began at the request of the Finnish Supervisory […]

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation into Meta’s commercial terms for businesses. It will examine whether Meta is abusing a dominant position by imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers. The terms could let Meta use their content, including for its AI features. The CMA announced the case on Friday […]

The FBI has blamed the Binance hack on North Korea. On Saturday, the bureau said North Korea stole more than $6bn in virtual assets from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. The theft happened on or about 29 October. In its statement, the FBI named the activity “TraderTraitor”. The FBI is working with the US […]

General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data brokers, who sold it on to insurance companies. GM must now get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data. Washington’s attorney general, Nick Brown, […]

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026. That is the smallest share in at least 15 years, down from 27.4% a year earlier. The figures come from a Reuters analysis of LSEG data and company reports by […]

Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He expects Amazon’s own assistant, Alexa for Shopping, to be the main agent people use to buy from the store. Jassy spoke on Amazon’s third-quarter earnings call. About a month ago, […]

Amazon’s free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn over the 12 months to September. Spending on AI drove most of the drop, the company said on Thursday. A year earlier it was a positive $14.8bn. The Amazon Q3 earnings showed revenue up 12% to $201.9bn and operating income up to $28.1bn, from $17.4bn a year […]

Tyler Shultz helped expose the blood-testing fraud at Theranos. He now says AI is hard to vet, and investors need to do real due diligence. Few laws govern AI, he added, which makes it hard for people inside AI companies to blow the whistle. Shultz spoke to Theo Baker on The San Francisco Standard’s PST […]

Pope Leo XIV called on Friday for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed”. Decisions on human life, freedom and the use of force must always stay under human oversight, he said. In an address published by the Vatican, he urged the states meeting in Geneva in November to move towards banning lethal autonomous weapons. He spoke […]

ChatGPT will stop giving teenagers practical information about weapons and security systems, even when a question looks harmless, OpenAI said on Friday. The limit applies to teen accounts with no sign of violent intent. OpenAI announced the change in a blog post, alongside a promise to publish a Community Safety Report on violence prevention. It […]