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AI data-centre boom dominates Climate Week, raising climate concerns
New York Climate Week was dominated by the AI data-centre boom, which climate-tech companies increasingly see as a source of customers and investment. The trend has helped startups facing a difficult funding environment, but has also raised concerns that building gas-fired power plants for data centres could conflict with climate goals and draw attention away…
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Jae Stephens Talks Having the ‘Audacity’ to Blow Up Your Pop Star Expectations: ‘I Take Up as Much Space as I Feel I Deserve’
Jae Stephens has released her debut studio album, *Audacity*, through Def Jam and Issa Rae’s Raedio imprint. The article presents the record as a confident, playful statement from a Black woman pop artist making her own version of pop stardom, at a time when the mainstream is still catching up with Black women’s influence on…
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Double Fine’s releasing its next game, Thank You Bus Driver, just months after splitting from Xbox
Double Fine will release *Thank You Bus Driver* on 14 October, its first game since becoming independent after splitting from Xbox earlier this summer. The black-and-white comedy driving sim is also the first release under Double Fine Action Labs, a new label for smaller games that the studio says can be made more quickly. Players…
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OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
OpenAI has fallen behind competitors in the rapidly growing AI agents market and is expected to announce its own agent platform, codenamed Aeon, at its upcoming DevDay event on Tuesday. The company that popularised modern generative AI chatbots now faces serious competition from Meta’s Muse, Google’s Gemini Spark, and other platforms that can autonomously handle…
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Meta is starting an enterprise business to justify its massive AI spending
Meta is launching a new enterprise business to sell its AI products and services to companies and developers. Mark Zuckerberg described it as a future major pillar of the business, signalling a push to earn revenue beyond advertising and to support the company’s substantial AI investment. The new unit, Meta Enterprise Platform, will be led…
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AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
Vivian’s Door, an Alabama nonprofit that works with underserved and minority-owned businesses, took its systems offline for three days after callers reported receiving fraudulent emails asking for money. Its IT provider fixed a vulnerability, costing the organisation about $3,000, but director Janice Malone remains unsure whether AI helped enable the attack or whether further attacks…
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French dev aims to solve bots’ blindness so they can understand GUIs
French AI developer H has released Holo 4 models designed to let AI agents work across command lines, APIs and graphical interfaces, including clicking, scrolling and typing. The models aim to address a longstanding weakness in AI: interacting with desktop software built for people, which could make agents more useful for tasks that require operating…
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Reduce Android animation speeds to make everyday actions feel quicker
The article describes an Android setting that can make a phone feel more responsive by speeding up its interface animations. It matters because the change can make everyday actions, such as unlocking the phone, opening apps and switching between them, seem quicker, although it does not improve the phone’s actual performance. To adjust it, users…
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Belgium v France, Northern Ireland v Hungary and more: Nations League – live
The article previews a busy evening of Nations League football, with five 7.45pm BST matches: Belgium v France, Northern Ireland v Hungary, Turkey v Italy, Sweden v Poland, and Romania v Bosnia and Herzegovina. It describes the competition as a welcome change from some past international fixtures and highlights Belgium v France as a standout…