Jeff Bezos says AI will cause a labour shortage and Sam Altman is 'delighted to be wrong' on job losses. The layoffs, and the IPO timing, complicate it.

John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a day after Shazeer left for OpenAI.

A 6th Circuit panel ruled Ohio can require parental consent before under-16s use social media, reviving a law the tech ...

Private fusion investment has crossed $13B, with 17 startups raising $100M+. But no company has yet proven commercial-scale energy generation works.

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.

Amazon MGM Studios will no longer release Artificial, a film about Altman's 2023 firing from OpenAI, despite positive test screenings and a starry cast.

Norway will bar children aged 6 to 13 from using generative AI tools in school from late August. Teens 14-16 can use them only under teacher supervision.

A court has preliminarily approved Sony's $7.85M settlement over claims it monopolised digital games by killing third-party game vouchers in 2019.

John Edwards has resigned as the UK's information commissioner after admitting 'inappropriate' humour, the first such resignation in its 40-year history.

Three Amazon engineers say they were investigated after backing Seattle's data-centre limits. The AI build-out backlash is now bipartisan, and internal.

HyperLight has raised an $80mn Series C led by MediaTek to scale its thin-film lithium niobate photonics for the optical interconnects AI data centres need.

France has mobilised another €13bn through its Tibi initiative, the insurer-backed model Europe keeps studying, now aimed at funding scale-ups continent-wide.