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Flock Safety cuts data retention to seven days after dozens of police abuse cases

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Garrett Langley, the company’s chief executive, set out the package in a post on Flock’s own blog on 13 August. It covers six areas. Privacy, accountability, data ownership, data security, data accuracy and transparency. Most of the Flock Safety privacy changes become mandatory for law enforcement customers on 1 January, the Associated Press reported. What […]

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Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded

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Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […]

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Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board

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The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’re not talking about AI correctly,” he said. The second part is the product. “We need to actually be developing more products […]

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Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

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The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]

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Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

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Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]

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Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

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The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg’s messages and Coller declined to […]

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A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT

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A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It is among the most disturbing in a growing line of cases in which an […]

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Europe built the world’s largest electric plane. It flew in New York

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Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres […]

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Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch

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The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June. Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior […]

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Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same

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Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word “Instagram” as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on your home screen is untouched. The change itself is small. The new type carries cursive curves on the letters […]

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