Tuesday, 3 November 2026
- New York Times sues Brave over paywalls and AI
The New York Times has sued Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, accusing it of getting around paywalls and passing copyrighted journalism…
- Palantir's Karp calls AI dominance a "moral imperative"
Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has described the company's drive to lead in artificial intelligence (AI) as a "moral imperative".
- Netflix tests AI tab to end the endless scroll
Netflix has started rolling out a new tab that helps viewers pick something to watch based on their mood, rather than trawling through rows of genres.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT search volume nears fifth of Google's
OpenAI said ChatGPT's search query volume now equals roughly 20% of Google's, according to Adam Fry, the company's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, speaking…
- Apple brings back its redesigned Health app for testing
Apple released iOS 27.3 beta 1, reintroducing a redesigned Health app that developers first saw in the iOS 27.2 beta before it was stripped out of that…
- CrowdStrike buys two startups to secure AI agents
CrowdStrike is buying Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, two startups focused on securing artificial intelligence systems, as enterprises rush to deploy AI agents…
- Palantir's numbers dazzle, but the order book troubles Wall Street
Palantir Technologies nearly doubled its revenue, beaten every forecast and raised its guidance.
- HSBC to open AI institute in Hong Kong
HSBC will establish an artificial intelligence and emerging-technology institute in Hong Kong, with operations due to begin in the first quarter of 2027.
- Gartner says open models can match frontier AI at a fraction of cost
Open-weight AI models can perform 90% of the routine steps in enterprise agent workflows at a twentieth of the cost of running a frontier large language model…
- OpenAI moves to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs
OpenAI is merging the Chat and Work tabs in the ChatGPT desktop app, according to emails sent to users.
- China speeds up new law to oversee AI from start to finish
China is rushing through a new law that would put artificial intelligence (AI) under government supervision at every stage, from the data and computers used to…
- Nvidia expands its city AI software stack into live municipal deployments
Nvidia, the US chipmaker whose processors power most of the world's artificial intelligence (AI) systems, says cities around the world are using its technology…
- UK regulators warn firms they can't blame AI agents for harm
Four UK regulators have told companies that deploying an AI agent does not transfer legal responsibility when things go wrong.
- Cloud infrastructure spending accelerates on AI capacity push
Worldwide spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $168 billion in the third quarter, up 55% from a year earlier, according to Synergy Research Group…
- AI systems start editing each other's weights directly
A new technique lets one AI model act as an optimizer that directly adjusts another model's weights, the internal parameters that encode what it has learned…
- Apple's record quarter can't hide the memory problem
After hours on Monday, Apple reported the best September quarter in its history, and investors are selling anyway.
- Zalando margin miss overshadows AI shopping agent launch
Zalando, the German online fashion retailer, has launched a service that lets shoppers use artificial intelligence (AI) agents inside its app to buy from other…
- Drax strikes £20bn data centre deal
Drax, owner of Britain's largest power plant, has struck a deal with infrastructure investor Brookfield Asset Management and its AI-infrastructure platform…
- Apollo lends record $114 billion as AI debt boom gathers pace
Apollo Global Management, the US private equity and credit giant, lent a record $114 billion in the third quarter, according to the Financial Times.
- Salesforce stock slides, reveals acquisition of voice AI agent startup Cresta
Salesforce stock closed Monday's trading session in New York, after the sales support software firm announced a deal to acquire Cresta, a company that builds…