Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, ex…
Continue ReadingAnthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Infor…
Continue ReadingQualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first au…
Continue ReadingAudi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72% The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. Th…
Continue ReadingSam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk f…
Continue ReadingDOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White H…
Continue ReadingTrump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’ Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligenc…
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