The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.
The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.

The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance, proudly made in the US. What shipped is a rebranded H…

A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.
A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.

Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants to reach half of the region’s 1.9 million doctors by the end of 2027. Total funding is now $42 m…

Europe’s carmakers are pivoting to defence as EV demand slows and military budgets soar
Europe’s carmakers are pivoting to defence as EV demand slows and military budgets soar

Four European automakers announced military vehicle partnerships in the past week. Ineos is bidding for a UK Ministry of Defence contract. Daimler Truck launched a dedicated defence brand. Renault partnered with Thales for armoured vehicles. Mercedes-B…

FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells
FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight individuals accused of charging consumers without pe…

Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes
Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two peopl…

Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own
Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-…

Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up
Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up

Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very frontier for the ve…

Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.
Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.

Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection land…

Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web
Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web

Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and i…

Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it
Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it

Gary Marcus has spent years warning that the AI industry is building on shaky foundations. Now he sees a specific chain of dominoes: if OpenAI’s IPO underperforms, the fallout will not stop at one company. “Their values rely to a significant degree on …