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I spent an hour riding inside Tesla’s steering-wheel-free Cybercab
The Verge’s transportation reporter has taken a first ride in Tesla’s Cybercab, a purpose-built two-seater robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, now offering paid trips in a roughly 288-square-mile geofenced area of Austin, Texas. The launch matters because it represents Tesla’s boldest bet yet on autonomous driving: rather than retrofitting existing models like the…
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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Business spending on AI tools slowed in August, according to data from payments company Ramp covering 70,000 customers, prompting debate over whether this reflects seasonal summer lulls or an early warning sign for the sector. Only 56% of Ramp’s customers paid for AI products in August, up just 0.4% on the previous month, and spend…
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Sydney Sweeney Goes Nude in Provocative Ad for Novig Sports Betting App
Sydney Sweeney has fronted a nude promotional campaign for Novig, a sports prediction market app, and revealed she has joined the company as a strategic partner and equity holder rather than simply acting as a paid endorser. The advert sees her pose with sporting equipment such as footballs, basketballs and a hockey net, and appear…
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Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?
Cloud gaming was once billed as the future of the industry, letting players stream any game instantly without owning a console or PC, but nearly two decades on the technology still hasn’t lived up to that promise. Microsoft’s decision to impose monthly time limits of 5-15 hours on Xbox game streaming, announced last week, signals…
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Will it kill off humanity? Computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of AI
A wave of stark warnings from computer scientists, an AI industry insider and politicians this week has intensified calls for tighter controls on the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI), technology that could surpass human capabilities. In Westminster, figures including former defence secretary Des Browne and Berkeley professor Stuart Russell compared the risks to nuclear weapons,…
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Hong Kong’s first leader Tung Chee-hwa dies at 89, as LIV Golf files for bankruptcy
Overseas and sport lead the bulletin as Hong Kong’s first post-handover chief executive dies aged 89 and LIV Golf enters Chapter 11 after losing Saudi backing; also covered: One Nation’s press-conference row, a scam using AFL star Tom Lynch’s image, and a nurse’s fatal accident that saved seven lives through organ d…
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No Man’s Sky’s 10th Anniversary Update is a Massive Overhaul of Space Itself
Hello Games has released Cosmos, a sweeping update marking No Man’s Sky’s 10th anniversary, which overhauls the game’s depiction of space itself rather than adding new planets or gameplay systems as recent updates have done. The studio says the space between planets has barely changed since the game’s troubled 2016 launch, so Cosmos introduces a…
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Instacart now has its own AI assistant called Clementine
Instacart has launched Clementine, an AI shopping assistant designed to help users decide what to cook while sticking to a budget. Available now across North America on the Instacart Marketplace, the tool responds to natural-language requests, such as asking for a quick, high-protein dinner for two, by suggesting recipes with ingredient lists that can be…
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Sequoia Capital has led a $25 million Series A funding round for Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup building security tools to manage the risks posed by AI agents operating inside enterprises. The investment, part of a $30 million total raise that values the two-year-old company at over $100 million, reflects growing concern…
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Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon’s Prime Video has launched an AI-powered lip-sync feature that adjusts an actor’s mouth movements to match “human-dubbed” audio, making dubbed foreign-language content appear more natural to watch. The technology combines AI with visual effects tools and, for now, is limited to the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall, though Amazon says it…