The UK Treasury has committed to designating major tech companies as “critical third parties” by next year, subjecting them to direct Bank of England and FCA oversight. This comes after recent Amazon cloud outages disrupted banking services and highlighted systemic risks.
Social platforms are overhauling their approach to content as AI-generated material floods feeds. From mandatory labeling to legal action against bots, companies are treating human interaction as a competitive advantage in the age of synthetic media.
Rivian has launched Mind Robotics, its second spinoff company this year focused on industrial AI and robotics. The new venture has secured $110 million in external seed capital but remains shrouded in mystery about its actual products and plans. This follows Rivian’s March spinoff of its micromobili
Apple is already moving forward with iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 beta testing, starting just one day after the public release of iOS 26.1. The updates are currently limited to developers, with a public beta likely coming soon.
Instacart is rolling out a new suite of AI tools designed specifically for grocery stores. The move, involving partners like Kroger and Sprouts, aims to turn shopping into a simple conversation. It’s a major push to own the future of AI-powered commerce.
OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video app is now available on Android after massive iOS success. The app reached over 1 million downloads in less than five days but immediately faced controversy over disrespectful Martin Luther King Jr. clips and Japanese copyright concerns. Legal troubles are mounting with a
Stability AI has won the majority of its legal battle against Getty Images over using 12 million images to train Stable Diffusion. The UK High Court ruling represents one of the first major decisions in the wave of AI copyright lawsuits. While providing some clarity, experts say significant question
Microsoft’s long-awaited Azure HBv5 virtual machines are now generally available, featuring custom AMD EPYC 9V64H processors with HBM3 memory. These VMs offer up to 368 cores and nearly 7TB/s of memory bandwidth, targeting memory-intensive HPC workloads. Independent benchmarks from Phoronix show how
Verizon is building new long-haul fiber pathways to connect AWS data centers as part of its AI Connect product. The partnership aims to handle exponential data growth from generative AI applications while improving performance and reliability.
A Meta engineer discovered that AMD’s latest Zen 5 processors have a critical bug in their pseudorandom number generator. The issue causes the chips to return predictable zeros about 10% of the time, compromising cryptographic security. AMD is rolling out fixes through January 2025.
