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OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

That figure is an improvement on the roughly $305bn the company projected in May, while the compute and infrastructure line has risen to about $856bn against the roughly $600bn target it gave investors publicly in…

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Both figures are unchanged from the previous version. The announcement is published under SpaceXAI, the name xAI has carried since July after SpaceX acquired it in February. Coverage still calls the company xAI, and its…

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s largest Claude Code…

ICYMI: the 7 biggest tech stories of the week, from AI apocalypse warnings to our Apple CEO interview

A bit heavier than an Apple iPhone event, but important nonetheless. To catch up on that and this week’s lighter (but still essential and biggest) tech news stories, scroll down for our ICYMI recaps and links to the full…

The Withings BodyScan 2, complete with cabled handle and premium build, might be the best smart scale of 2026

The scale reported accurate results across almost all metrics, although the vascular age estimation changed significantly over the period of a couple of weeks. The BodyScan 2 also commands a very high price, but it…

Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by all four companies were part of the same issue, and that it told the relevant developers in late July. One…

Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake

The release notes only mention two new features: for Mac users, there's now an option in Settings to automatically launch the app at login. This vulture has received criticism for saying this in some of the product's…

Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

Weeks earlier he declined to call AI fears a hoax, described apocalyptic predictions as not grounded in science, and said companies should pause or pace their work if they felt out of control. The full interview airs on…

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

Wu intends to keep oversight of the company’s privacy practices. Wu wrote that the order imposed obligations neither TikTok nor the government had shown to be obviated. The ruling is tentative and can change. Why $100m…

Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade representative said chip export controls never came up. Five months on, Chinese customs is still…