Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation led by Jane Street, 26 days after its last round, and has just shipped its first rack to that investor.

Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees from 1 October to settle its DMA dispute. The per-install fee goes, in-app purchases drop to 26 percent.

Staffers are using Claude and ChatGPT to write US legislation. Congressional lawyers say fixing AI-drafted bills takes longer than drafting them.

From 24 August the YouTube view count starts at the first frame, with no minimum watch time. Earnings still run on the strict measure, renamed Engaged views.

Pixel production leaves China in 2027 for Vietnam and India, Nikkei reports. The 2026 strategy, in one word: attack. Target is 13 million phones.

Space, backed by a16z’s Speedrun, has raised $2.4M pre-seed to build a distributed filesystem that streams only the bytes people and AI agents need, using zero local disk. The pitch is bold; the space ...

A bookseller hid an AirTag in a rare book. 404 Media followed it to an Amazon book scanning warehouse where staff cut bindings off to digitise pages.

QuantumLight, the data-driven VC firm co-founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, has closed an oversubscribed $500m second fund, double its 2025 debut.

Tesla is reportedly preparing to put its Cybercab robotaxi on public roads in Austin as soon as this month, starting with rides for employees before folding the cars into its existing service.

CISA has added CVE-2025-62593, a code-injection flaw in the open-source Ray AI framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue.

Medly AI has raised an $8m seed led by Felix Capital, weeks after winning a £300,000 UK government contract to test AI tutoring on pupils falling behind.

A widely shared claim that AI ‘slop’ causes cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children traces back to a single, non-peer-reviewed GNET analysis based on online monitoring.