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Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push

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Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process automation and cyber defence. No financial terms were disclosed. Cognizant is dedicating more than 18,000 staff to […]

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Vingroup’s Green SM brings 500 VinFast EV taxis to Los Angeles

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Green SM, a ride-hailing firm owned by Vietnam’s Vingroup, has launched an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles. It starts with 500 VinFast VF 8 SUVs and full-time drivers. The US is its ninth market, and the launch puts more cars from sister company VinFast on US roads. Green SM, a Vietnamese ride-hailing company, has […]

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Apple sets 28 October event, expected to bring its first touchscreen Mac

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Apple has confirmed a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on 28 October. Bloomberg reports it will show its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, an entry-level M6 MacBook Pro, a new iMac and an OLED iPad mini. Apple has not confirmed any products. Apple will hold a launch event in Los […]

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“Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf

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Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. “I called Google, Google Maps. See, Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my ass.” Donald Trump, at a rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky He was speaking at the university’s Truist Arena in Highland […]

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Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own

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Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules. They would protect players’ ability to own and play the games they buy. Buying […]

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Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team

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Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday. Existing investors a16z and First Round Capital took part, along with Better Tomorrow Ventures, Precedent.vc, […]

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Emil Michael tells The Information export controls can rein in AI labs

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Emil Michael says the US government can use export controls on AI companies that do not cooperate with it. The under secretary of war is the Pentagon’s chief technology officer. He made the case in a video interview with Amir Efrati and Leo Schwartz of The Information, which reported it on Monday. Michael spoke the […]

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AI agents broke into 100+ sites for one hacker at $50 each, researcher says

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A cybersecurity researcher watched a Chinese-speaking hacker break into the websites of more than 100 companies, leaving almost all the work to AI agents. Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at NorForge, set out the findings on Monday in a report on Cairn, the open-source AI platform the hacker used. Reuters saw the report before publication […]

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Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows

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Disney expects to spend about $180m over three years on the Character.AI staff it is hiring, a bankruptcy court filing shows. The sum covers pay and retention. Character Technologies, which runs the chatbot platform, filed the papers in Delaware on 13 October. It had sought Chapter 11 protection the day before. Bloomberg first reported the […]

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Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year

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Elon Musk’s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own share plan. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the […]

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