OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features rather than model research, including the ability to share the prompt alongside […]

Threats against corporate leaders are becoming harder for businesses to treat as an isolated security issue. Reuters reported that 42% of security chiefs surveyed across multiple industries had seen a significant increase in threats of violence against company executives over the previous two years. The figure rose to 66% among U.S.-based security chiefs at technology companies, suggesting […]

OpenAI says an internal model proved that 3D Navier-Stokes can develop a singularity in finite time, using about 10,000 agents over 88 hours. It described the result on a press call and had not published the proof. Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge, working on related problems, published preprints with Lean formalisations that anyone can machine-check. […]

Cognition raised over $2bn at a $48bn valuation, up from $26bn in May. Run-rate revenue rose from $492m to almost $900m over the same period. Both rounds price the company at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue, so the multiple did not expand. Cognition has raised more than $2bn at a $48bn valuation. The company announced the […]

Robinhood has won its first IPO underwriting role, ranking last among 18 banks on Oura’s offering. The bigger shift is in retail distribution: SpaceX reserved about 20% of its deal for individuals and Fidelity cut its minimum order from $500,000 to $2,000. That channel is being completed just before the AI listings arrive Robinhood has […]

Growth hacking was supposed to be dead. The term had a good run. Sean Ellis coined it in 2010, and for a decade it described the scrappy, slightly unholy tricks that built the consumer internet: Airbnb piggybacking on Craigslist, Dropbox handing out free storage for referrals, Hotmail signing every outgoing email with an ad for […]

Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connections and capital. Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures as an advisory […]

Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers that signed memoranda to supply the EU’s AI gigafactories, a programme with roughly EUR 1B actually […]

Summary Context management for AI-assisted coding has matured into a rich ecosystem: convention files, repository maps, memory banks, and full-blown memory frameworks all compete to keep a coding agent grounded in your codebase. But step outside the terminal and ask an assistant about your health or your finances, and the tooling nearly vanishes. Your personal […]

DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use. Its headline validations came from UK Biobank whole genomes at Exeter and from the Broad Institute, and commercial access is heading to Google Cloud. DeepMind has published AlphaGenome Atlas, a […]

Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being […]

ProLogium says it has begun mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan at 381 Wh/kg, verified by TUV Rheinland and tested against a Chinese all-solid-state standard. Its subsidised Dunkirk gigafactory broke ground in February and its published staging starts at 0.8 GWh in 2028, in a Europe that has already lost Northvolt. ProLogium says it has begun […]

The Exploration Company has raised $450m. Most of it goes into something the company is not yet famous for. Not Nyx, the reusable capsule that has drawn the contracts and the SpaceX comparisons. An engine. Kate Duffy reported the round for Bloomberg. Founder and chief executive Hélène Huby told her why the balance falls that […]

Plug-in hybrids registered in the EU in 2024 emitted an average 145 grams of CO2 per kilometre against an official rating of 24 grams, according to Transport and Environment’s reading of onboard monitor data from 220,000 cars. Carmakers want the 2027 correction to that calculation cancelled, weeks before the Council debates the file. Plug-in hybrids […]

China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Commerce published the preliminary determination on 7 September as Announcement No. 37 […]

The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except it’s not happening, help us make it happen.” Sweet […]

An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus […]

China’s effort to build its own chipmaking machines finally has a coordinator. It is Huawei. And the flagship machine it is coordinating still runs on German lenses. Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu reported the arrangement for the Financial Times, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. TNW has not independently verified it. Huawei is investing […]

The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the government’s media Green Paper, which opened on 23 June. That […]