Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time
Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: “There is no option to o…

EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe
EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place, Politico reported. The decisi…

Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA
Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA

The strategy is defined by a single exclusion. Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Wednesday, Cerebras chief executive Andrew Feldman said the AI chipmaker is working with every major hardware maker in the industry apart from one: NVIDIA. The …

A UK MP’s lawsuit could decide whether xAI answers for what Grok makes
A UK MP’s lawsuit could decide whether xAI answers for what Grok makes

The case turns on a question of authorship. When a user types a prompt and Grok returns a sexualised image of a real woman, who made it, the person at the keyboard or the company that built the machine? On 3 June, Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim at …

AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away
AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away

The promise of workplace AI was always time: hours handed back to employees buried in routine work. A new study suggests the hours are real and that most companies are quietly losing them again. According to research from Workday, surveying 3,200 busin…

SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing
SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing

Companies going public almost always leave the price for last. They set a range, send executives on a roadshow, take the temperature of the institutions, and let demand decide where the shares land. SpaceX has decided to do it backwards. The company pl…

Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market
Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market

Megaport spent a decade as a company you used to connect to other people’s clouds. On Wednesday it announced a plan to become one. The Australian networking firm secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth a combined A$458.9M (about $329M) and l…

GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring
GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring

GitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027,  in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The res…

Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special
Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special

The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Special…

Amazon’s Ring is sued over its Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature
Amazon’s Ring is sued over its Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature

mazon was sued on Monday over the facial-recognition feature it recently added to its Ring doorbells, in a complaint that turns on a familiar asymmetry: the person who buys the camera consents to it, and the person walking past the camera does not. Cha…