Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic had been wrong. They were wrong because bots grew faster than he expected. […]

More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are […]

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, […]

The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan […]

Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies. When Anthropic customers hit their contracted token volume, they must […]

A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was home when he wasn’t. Matt Robb described what happened in a post on Threads. “Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price,” Robb wrote. Robb had let Muse […]

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against […]

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and with classifiers that block reasoning extraction. Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it […]

Nvidia’s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total remaining authorisation to $235bn, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028. Nvidia called it the largest increase to a share repurchase authorisation in history. “This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead,” […]

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform,” Zuckerberg wrote. The unit will first offer Meta’s full technology stack to businesses […]

Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books trips, orders groceries and telephones businesses using its own phone. Since 2 August, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required systems that interact directly with people to tell them they are dealing with […]

Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with antibodies against bird flu and other influenza viruses and plans its first clinical trials […]

Volkswagen’s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario plant by two years to 2029, and the ID Buzz will skip another American model year. Its Salzgitter plant in Germany has been making cells since December and supplies a new assembly line at SEAT’s Martorell site in Spain. Volkswagen’s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario […]

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthropic has asked for another date because the invitation came late last week, a person familiar […]

Nio has agreed to sell a 30% stake in its battery swapping business, Nio Power, to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the company said on Monday. The two Chinese carmakers will also share technology and standards and build a joint service network. Geely Holding will pay with its whole battery swapping unit, Yiyi Power, plus 640 […]

China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Government agencies have started telling affected people about the wider restrictions, Bloomberg reported. Those covered include prominent […]

Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks of open-weight AI models. Anyone can download, modify and run the trained parameters of such models. The two released the report on Monday, Chong Ming Lee reported for the South China Morning Post. The report “provides the […]

Chery has built the world’s first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, the Stockman, developed for Australia rather than China, with a 2.5-litre turbo-diesel, a 34 kWh battery and a claimed 100 km of electric range on the NEDC cycle. Volvo invented the diesel plug-in hybrid and stopped building it in 2018, the year Europe retired that […]

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Both flaws were exploited before a patch existed. “Exploits of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 on unmitigated NetScaler deployments […]

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He made the case in an interview with Shirin Ghaffary for Bloomberg’s Q&AI newsletter. “Unless we can prove ahead of time that we can control it, then it’ll be a failure as a technology, and we should […]

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported for TechCrunch. Mullenweg confirmed the appointments to TechCrunch after publication. Mullenweg told staff about the […]

Hyundai research chief Manfred Harrer says carmakers cannot give up on solid-state batteries and expects small-volume halo cars within five years, but does not believe the raw material cost problem can be solved in that time. LG Energy Solution puts solid-state in electric cars roughly a decade away, and France is already subsidising a solid-state […]

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before the dinner, Trump said he planned to raise Amodei’s call to slow AI development, Bloomberg […]

The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into the void. They navigate an endless stream of expired ‘ghost jobs’. And they compete against automated mass-application bots for a fraction of the actual open roles. It’s a frustrating, high-friction loop. Legacy job boards, built primarily around employer […]