No company should sell AI chatbots ‘pretending to be their friend or more’ to kids, says Hochul as she signs New York’s new ...

Ofcom has named four age checks it says can reliably tell whether UK social media users are 16 or over. They will underpin ...

Toyota will build driverless bZ electric SUVs for Waymo at its Takaoka plant, with testing in Japan from 2027 and the UK next ...

The Biological Computing Co. launched Mischief, an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2 that it says runs 5x faster using ...

Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei in 2025, four times his salary, and lets him vote shares sent to two charity funds, its IPO filing shows.

Proton will re-interview staff about AI use from 4 November, and the results may decide who keeps their job, 404 Media ...

Thrive Holdings will buy ADT for $7.6bn and keep ADT’s privacy rules. ‘Protecting customers’ homes also means protecting ...

STMicroelectronics says demand ‘remains well above supply’ as it forecasts $4.15bn in Q4 revenue and raises prices on some chips.

Entourage closes a €100m Fund II. Founder Pieterjan Bouten says ‘great founders don’t need babysitting’, so it rarely takes board seats.

Devin maker Cognition is ‘seriously considering’ a round before year-end at $70bn to $80bn, up from $48bn in September, ...

Frontex could monitor social media under an EU plan. An MEP says it would put online speech ‘under a border agency’s watch’.

Google and Apple fined in South Korea. Its regulator hopes the penalty is ‘a turning point’ for the app market; Apple says it ...