Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, prod…
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending th…
Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its merger with Udemy. The board approved the programme o…
The hackers exfiltrated a codebase that was already open source, then demanded payment to keep it from being released. Grafana said no, and cited the FBI’s standing advice. It is the second high-profile extortion case in seven days. Grafana Labs, the o…
Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday,…
The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre …
The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire…
Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees ear…
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and …
Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most e…