Apple trained its own AI model for China with Alibaba's help, Reuters reports, and Beijing has registered it
Three people familiar with the matter told Reuters the Cyberspace Administration of China registered Apple's generative AI service last month. That would make Apple the first foreign company cleared to run its own model there.
Read →France's top court blocked a social media ban for under-15s, four days before it was due to start
The Constitutional Council said the bill failed to set limits on age checks and cut too far into freedom of expression. President Macron has asked for a rewrite before spring 2027.
Read →Databricks raised another $5 billion at $190 billion
Second $5 billion cheque in six months. Ghodsi says he still wants an IPO, just not in this market.
Read →AMD signed an MOU with Oxford's new BOLD lab, and put up to £5 million of compute on the table
The lab wants AI that learns beyond backpropagation. AMD wants open research tied to its software stack.
Read →Apple is quietly building a way to prove a photo actually came from an iPhone camera
It's buried in an iOS 27 beta, switched off by default, and not confirmed for public release yet.
Read →Scientists just used AI to design 16 working viruses that have never existed in nature
They're built to kill drug-resistant bacteria, not people. A biosecurity expert still isn't fully comfortable.
Read →Abbott and Google are combining glucose monitoring with AI coaching, in a partnership announced today
Your continuous glucose monitor data is about to show up next to your sleep and activity stats.
Read →Anthropic just signed a $9.1 billion, 20-year deal with a former Bitcoin miner
Riot Platforms spent years mining crypto. Now it's renting out power to AI labs instead, and the numbers are enormous.
Read →Airtable sold for $1.25B. It was once valued at $11.7B!
$480 million in ARR, growing over 20% a year, sold anyway. That should worry more SaaS founders than it will.
Read →Google just moved its most famous AI scientist out of the job that made him famous
Demis Hassabis is now a chairman. Jeff Dean left after 27 years. And Gemini still hasn't shipped.
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