ShinyHunters defaced the Cl0p ransomware gang’s Tor leak site and set a 72-hour deadline. Only the defacement itself can be independently verified.

Two days after Trump said he would create an AI Force and name an AI czar, the White House has not said whether it is a military branch or a title.

Media outlets report a five-tranche dollar and euro bond pricing on 24 September, covering the $10bn SoftBank owes OpenAI on 1 October.

Downdetector logged 17,000+ Facebook reports and 5,000+ for Instagram before both recovered. Meta has not said what caused the outage.

China’s securities regulator is said to be discouraging humanoid robot listings after Unitree rose 460% on debut and gave most of it back.

The account of the Apple Park meeting comes entirely from the prime minister. Apple has said nothing on the record, and Cook is no longer chief executive.

A term sheet reported by Reuters sets a 6 October bookbuild and a 22 October ASX debut for Nvidia-backed Firmus, at a $10.5bn valuation.

Ternus described the perfect AI device at his first keynote, then said it is the iPhone. The real new hardware is a smaller ...

Trump calls the AI backlash a Democratic hoax. Polling this week put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

Four consumers allege Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow AI. The complaint is built from the companies' public statements.

An OECD survey finds 67% of US firms use software to sanction workers, against 4% in Europe. Most of these tools are not AI.

Zuckerberg refused to join the AI pacing push, citing liability & competition. That is the argument plaintiffs now make ...