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TNW ·
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s original eight team members, has written a first-hand account of Slack’s first two years inside Salesforce. It quotes Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s co-founder and former chief executive, throughout. Rodgers...
TNW ·
Shares in CoreWeave, Nebius and Iren fell in early trading on Monday after Elon Musk wrote that most neoclouds will not survive. All three rebounded later in the day, as Arjun Kharpal reported for CNBC. Neoclouds rent out AI computing...
TNW ·
OpenAI on Monday released GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster and cheaper AI model built for the routine computer work that fills most office days. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and sits in the middle of OpenAI’s range, below Sol and Astra but above...
TNW ·
Only five of 60 analysts tracked by Bloomberg rate Tesla a sell, the lowest share since early 2015. Barclays upgraded the stock to overweight on Monday, calling a SpaceX merger “a key part of the Tesla bull case“, after BNP Paribas and...
TNW ·
Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Business Wire. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro in...
TNW ·
SWI Group, the Amsterdam-listed investment group, has launched SWI Compute to build and run Nvidia AI factories, starting in Europe. The new business has ordered about $1bn of Nvidia systems and plans its first large site in the UK....
TNW ·
Volkswagen and Xpeng have won approval to run higher levels of self-driving on public roads in China. VW has started Level 3 road tests in Hefei. Xpeng can now run Level 4 robotaxi services across Guangzhou.
TNW ·
The UK government will spend £130m on AI cyber defence, including a National Cyber Shield that uses agentic AI to protect critical infrastructure. The money is part of a package of more than £600m for AI that the Chancellor, John...
TNW ·
The moderators of r/opensource, one of Reddit’s main open source forums, now bar any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is intended for AI. The new rules also shut out solo developers, young projects and people who do not speak...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said SpaceX would need up to $500B, up to 80,000 cell towers and as many as eight years to build a US mobile network that matches Verizon’s, Business Insider reported. Elon Musk replied on X that it “will take 2...
Electronics Weekly ·
Apple will take 25% of the Foldable Smartphone market in 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. But how repairable will the iPhone Duo prove to be? The post Tearing down the Apple iPhone Duo appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
TNW ·
Revolut is building Revolut Ventures with Carne Group, a platform in its app for eligible users to invest in private tech companies, due in 2027. It builds on private market funds Revolut opened from €1 in July. Revolut is also planning...
TNW ·
Audi is recalling 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron SUVs in the US because their batteries could catch fire above 80% charge, an NHTSA filing shows. The cells come from SK On’s plant in Hungary. It follows VW’s recall of 22,524...
TNW ·
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has picked Malaysia for $50bn of investment in AI, new technology and data centres. Prime minister Anwar Ibrahim made the announcement on Saturday. Anwar said Son told him about the plan during a video...
The Register ·
The world is full of different keyboard layouts, but if you want one that's completely customized, down to the individual key, there's a new open source project that uses magnets to hold interchangeable pieces together. Keybytes is an...
TNW ·
Authentic Brands Group and other owners of Elvis Presley’s catalogue filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday. They want about $41.1m from the company behind Claude, or $150,000 for each of 274 songs. Billboard first...
The Register ·
To address a vulnerability in Google's Brotli compression technology that could allow attackers to corrupt process memory, Microsoft is urging .NET users to update "as soon as possible" after releasing an out-of-band (OOB) security...
TNW ·
Hedge funds sold tech stocks at their fastest pace in two years during last Thursday’s rout, Goldman Sachs’ Tony Pasquariello told clients, Bloomberg reported. The Nasdaq 100 fell 2.9% that day. He expects the bull market to continue,...
TNW ·
Faraday Future has completed the sale of its robotics business to FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem (FFR), which trades on Nasdaq, in an all-share deal valued at about $200M. Founder YT Jia becomes FFR’s CEO. FFR expects October shipments above...
TNW ·
Advertisers in Pennsylvania will have to label ads that use AI to mislead consumers about what they are selling. Governor Josh Shapiro approved the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on 22 October, and it became Act 99 of...
TNW ·
A growing number of iPhone Duo owners say the inner screen cracked along the crease soon after purchase, Bloomberg reported. It appears to affect a minority of units. iFixit suspects a hinge part presses on the screen.
The Register ·
The world is full of different keyboard layouts, but if you want one that's completely customized, down to the individual key, there's a new open source project that uses magnets to hold interchangeable pieces together. Keybytes is an...
TNW ·
Gary Smith has been Ciena CEO since May 2001, and led the company through the telecom crash that followed the fibre boom. He says today’s AI build-out is a different kind of cycle, the optical networking company’s chief executive told...
TNW ·
Anthropic has warned would-be investors that its views on AI safety could make it a political target. The warning is in the risk factors of its S-1 registration statement. The company made it public on Monday, setting out its plans for...
TNW ·
Instagram has started testing a new format for long, horizontal videos called Features. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and product chief Tessa Lyons announced the test on Monday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adam Mosseri...
IT Pro ·
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies. He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro...
The Register ·
Reddit's r/opensource community has declared war on AI-generated software by introducing a sweeping set of new rules that also manage to shut out solo developers, newcomers, and anyone who doesn't speak English. The crackdown ,...
TNW ·
Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, announced the Voluntary Exit Offer in a memo to employees on Monday. It is open to eligible staff in participating teams in Canada, India, the UK and the US, at level 70 and below on...
TNW ·
Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital. The round values the San Francisco startup at $4.1bn after the money, it said in a statement on Monday. It brings the company’s total funding to...
TNW ·
is developing the $2bn hub under an agreement signed in November 2025 with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, the Nasdaq-listed group said in a statement on Monday. The site is planned with 100MW...
TNW ·
Apple unveiled the eighth-generation iPad mini on Monday, two days before its Pro and Tell event in Los Angeles. The tablet keeps the footprint of the 2024 model but stretches the screen to 8.5 inches, from 8.3, by cutting the bezels by...
The Register · · Medium severity
If you run PHP anywhere in your environment, patch to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35 now. Two critical flaws disclosed last week, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (nicknamed "PHP2Shell"), let an unauthenticated attacker run...
The Register ·
A UK-based developer and pentester has claimed a $2,000 Bitcoin prize for demonstrating the exploitability of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities that melted the internet last week. Jaydip Modhwadia, 26, otherwise known as “Killa,” claimed...
The Register ·
Anthropic has filed for an IPO that could rank among Wall Street's biggest ever, revealing an $80.7 billion half-year loss, a startlingly complex governance structure, and warnings that its AI models could blackmail humans, resist...
TNW ·
New York-based Nevis, which builds AI software for wealth management firms, has raised $70M in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The company announced the funding on Monday. Two new backers joined: Charles Schwab, one of the largest...
TNW ·
Sweden’s Government Offices, which runs the work of the prime minister and the ministries, has blocked staff from using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude on their work computers. Ekot, the news service of public broadcaster...
Tech.eu ·
Anthropic today offered hope to European AI application layer startups, saying that its primary focus was on being a foundation AI model company, and that it may compete with application startups “from time to time” in “select...
The Register ·
This Thursday, 29 October, The Register hosts HPE and NVIDIA at one dinner table in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries: where the data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as...
IT Security Guru ·
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the launch of Firewall-as-a-Subscription, a new offering designed to make advanced AI-powered network security more accessible to organisations without requiring a significant upfront...
TNW ·
Anthropic made its prospectus public on Monday. It filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to list its Class A shares under the ticker ANT.
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