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OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce

OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, walked out after nine months. Both women came from […]

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Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg. The figure lands in AEMO’s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the […]

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The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sunday. The paper rolled it out quietly to a small subset of visitors over recent […]

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Trump wants a $103,265 fee on new H-1B visas

The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas let US employers hire foreign workers trained in specialty fields, and the technology […]

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Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight

Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV increases earlier the same day. Amazon confirmed the rises and blamed memory […]

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Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%

PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8% to 112.4bn yuan, or $16.6bn, missing forecasts. Shares rose about 3.5% premarket as European regulatory pressure on Temu continues to build. Temu’s owner made more money than analysts expected and sold less than they hoped. PDD […]

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Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month

Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest […]

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Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was

A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot overstates 2022 AI skills by about 30%. The record of who did what at work is quietly […]

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Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July

Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted on the California attorney general’s website. The letter opens the account of what happened with a […]

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TCS buys Porsche’s MHP for €320m and lands a €1.25bn contract with it

Tata Consultancy Services is buying MHP, the management and IT consultancy Porsche has owned for years, for €320m, and signing a five-year engagement with the carmaker worth €1.25bn on top of it. The two halves are what make the deal worth reading, because Porsche is simultaneously disposing of an asset and committing to buy back […]

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