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Apple faces $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict over iPhone and Apple Watch haptics

A federal jury awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents. Apple plans to appeal.

Tesla Begins Electric Semi-Truck Rollout During Iran War Diesel Price Spikes

Tesla has begun deliveries of its long-awaited electric semi-truck, opening its first mass-production facility outside of Reno, Nevada.

Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres

China wants in on U.S. AI data center boom. Here's why

Chinese data center manufacturers see U.S. AI infrastructure demand as an opportunity, but roadblocks remain

The internet isn’t killing God

First it came for Tower Records. Then Blockbuster. Then newspapers. Now researchers are claiming it is coming for God.

Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT

Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the government

Elon Musk Built the Rockets. Washington Forgot to Build the Roads

American rockets are launching more frequently than ever, yet getting a ride to orbit is becoming harder.

‘I was mesmerised by how the fog turned the tower into a monolith’: Derek Zhao’s best phone picture

Zhao was out jogging around Treasure Island, near San Francisco, when he spotted a lonely tower stabbing through the clouds

Amazon's Ring wants to replace local WhatsApp groups. It's a recipe for curtain-twitching disaster

Do we really want a slick digital message board overseen by Amazon? It’s the neighbourhood nonsense we treasure

Progressives steer Democratic Party toward heavy regulation of AI

Progressive Democrats are jockeying to shape the Democratic Party’s approach to artificial intelligence, pushing for heavy restrictions on the rapidly developing industry.

OpenAI reveals its agents accessed some U.S. government website data after going rogue

OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behavior.