Reddit fights AI marketing ‘slop’ with its own AI, as GEO becomes the new SEO
Reddit fights AI marketing ‘slop’ with its own AI, as GEO becomes the new SEO

People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform w…

Microsoft guts Xbox: 3,200 jobs cut and five studios divested, two of them European
Microsoft guts Xbox: 3,200 jobs cut and five studios divested, two of them European

Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business “is not healthy.” The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it t…

Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise
Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch re…

Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data
Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data

The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Fundi…

Hedge funds sold chip stocks for a fourth week, but not the AI trade
Hedge funds sold chip stocks for a fourth week, but not the AI trade

Hedge funds cut their holdings of semiconductor stocks for a fourth straight week, according to Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data, in a run of selling that has made chipmakers and their equipment suppliers the most heavily net-sold corner of the US ma…

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data
Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company …

A senior FCA official says Britain should weigh regulating AI models directly
A senior FCA official says Britain should weigh regulating AI models directly

Britain should consider whether large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini ought to be regulated as they increasingly influence how consumers make financial decisions, a senior official at the Financial Conduct Authority has said. Sheldo…

UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules
UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to …

Japan’s Turing takes AMD money and AMD chips to loosen Nvidia’s grip
Japan’s Turing takes AMD money and AMD chips to loosen Nvidia’s grip

Nvidia powers almost every self-driving car project going. A small Japanese startup is quietly handing some of that work to AMD instead. Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its backers and started running its AI on AMD chips, Bloomberg reported. The …

Tesla brings its Robotaxi to Miami, and drops the safety monitor
Tesla brings its Robotaxi to Miami, and drops the safety monitor

Tesla’s driverless cabs have reached a fifth US city. This time, there is no human minder in the car at all. The company rolled out its Robotaxi service in part of Miami on Friday, it announced on X. A map in the post showed a small patch of West Miami…