Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data labelers and a former self-driving engineer about their views on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode. Seven of the nine data specialists said they would not ride in a Tesla operating on FSD. One said they would not…
Twenty Snap alumni have launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund backing the next generation of social media and consumer AI startups. The fund has invested in at least five companies and plans to deploy remaining capital into at least 15 more within the n…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyper…
SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. It is the Japanese conglomerate’s biggest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe. CEO Masayoshi Son and President Emmanuel Macron a…
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pe…
The financial terms of the Breathitt County social media settlement have been disclosed for the first time. Meta is paying $9 million. Snap and TikTok are each paying $8 million. YouTube negotiated a payout of slightly more than $2 million. The combine…
Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the mos…
Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company described it as the first known deployment of humanoid robots in a combat theatre. The tests, …
London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mytho…
Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers…