Greg Jensen, co–chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, thinks the top holders of AI compute warrant extra regulation, similar to what governs the world’s biggest financial institutions.
If a company controls more than, say, 5% of U.S. or global compute, it should be subject to heightened oversight, “like we do with systemically important banks,” Jensen said. In a wide-ranging interview, he also discussed Bridgewater’s growing use of AI in investing and where it still remains cautious, including leaving risk controls and trade execution to what he called “human-driven algorithms.”
CoreWeave said on Thursday that it could sell up to 35 million shares, worth roughly $3 billion based on the prior day’s closing price, through a new at-the-market offering program. At the same time, the company announced plans to raise $3 billion in a convertible note issue, with an option for ...
Remember when OpenAIlanded in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem? (I know it feels like a million years ago given all the news cycles since then.)
Well, it turns out OpenAI is close to solving another math problem from the Millennium Prize Problems, a set of seven famous math challenges including that earlier “Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem,” according to a person with knowledge of the solution.
Employees expect the next problem, known as the Hodge Conjecture, to be solved relatively soon, the person said. The Hodge Conjecture asks whether certain geometric features of shapes defined by polynomial equations can always be described using simpler algebraic pieces. It could take the company longer to announce the solution, though, because it’s trying to figure out how to collaborate with the math community to make the announcement without triggering another PR nightmare, the person said.
Money, technical savvy and disruptive ideas all matter within the technology industry. But the most seismic force is influence. Those who have it build, fund and steer the companies that alter the world—again and again. Those without it can only rise so far.
So who’s got that clout? You’ll find the answer by poring over our new list: the 50 Most Influential People in Tech. It isn’t just a snapshot of influence today. Coming up with such a list would be a relatively simple exercise. Rather, we’re providing a roster of the people we believe will have the most influence over the next decade, a more complex task that The Information is uniquely well positioned to pull off.
It's official: Amazon's October Prime Day event, Prime Big Deal Days, is returning this year on Oct. 6-7. If you're a Prime member who can't wait to shop the sale, the good news is you actually don't have to. The retailer already has some early deals live for members that are worth checking out, including a big price cut on the Dreame Matrix10 Ultra robot vacuum and mop.
As of Sept. 17, the Dreame Matrix10 Ultra has dropped from $1,799.99 to $1,399.99, saving you $400 in total and marking its lowest-ever price at the retailer. This is an exclusive Prime member price. If you're curious about becoming a member ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, check out our breakdown of how to sign up for more information.
The Dreame Matrix10 Ultra, released just last year, is a premium cleaner that offers both vacuuming and mopping capabilities. It's 30,000Pa Vormax suction, and the HyperStream detangling DuoBrush helps clear dust, hair, and debris from your surfaces, while its Multi-Mop Switching Dock can auto-select the right mop for each area of your home when scrubbing the floors. This helps prevent cross-contamination to get a deeper clean.
This robot vacuum can also avoid obstacles thanks to smart OmniSight tech and can even conquer steps up to 3.15 inches with its dual retractable legs. Mashable's Leah Stodart experienced the latter with a different model and wrote that its "use case felt quite limited," but it "could be helpful if your floors have any height changes, or if you need a robot vacuum to cross sliding door tracks."
If the Dreame Matrix10 Ultra sounds like the perfect fit to help keep your home clean this fall, don't miss out on this Prime exclusive deal at Amazon.
While China and Russia rush to build a SpaceX competitor, the UK is taking another route by developing an alternative to satellite internet that relies mostly on aircraft. Its Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is funding 18 projects aimed at building aircraft that will deliver wireless communications to areas in the UK and the rest of the world that are not served by terrestrial networks. According to The Register, the program, called Enduring Atmospheric Platforms, aims to have a unit with a 300-watt communications payload aloft and holding station for a week.
These units are called high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS), with ARIA allocating $94 million over three and a half years for these projects. There are three technical areas in focus at the moment: TA1, which aims to develop the underlying technologies; TA2, which looks into the integration and testing of the developed systems; and TA3, which will concentrate on actual deployment.
Two startups have proposed multiple drone systems that will cover the entire United Kingdom — Carousel, by Menapia, wants to build a constellation that can hover at altitudes of up to 12 miles, while Enduring Drone Networks, by VFP Aerospace, proposes a relay of units that automatically fly back to their ground station for charging and servicing, with a cost of about $67,000 per drone.
Two other proposals suggest wireless power — one is Scalable Laser Ltd, which is working on a laser-based technology that pairs high-power laser diodes on the ground with advanced photovoltaic receivers in the air. On the other hand, Space Solar Engineering Ltd wants to use radio frequencies, like microwave, to deliver power to airborne units. There’s also a more novel approach from the University of Bath, which plans to use atmospheric gravity waves — using the upward movement of air caused by weather fronts and geographical features and the subsequent pull of gravity that brings it back down — to extend the range and endurance of HAPS aircraft.
"This research expands the UK's leadership in high-altitude platforms to become the place where this industry is designed, built, and scaled," says ARIA program director Rico Chandra. "Getting there means backing bold ideas, from fixed-wing solar aircraft to designs nobody predicted, including aircraft that fly on spinning wings instead of propellers."
The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena–related classified information, but it doesn’t extend to other agencies.
Il rilascio di Android 17 QPR1 stabile, avvenuto proprio in questi giorni insieme all’ultimo Pixel Drop, sta causando un po’ di polemica inaspettata: gli sviluppatori di GrapheneOS, il progetto open source basato su Android noto per il focus sulla privacy e sulla sicurezza, accusa infatti Google di rendere disponibili in anticipo ai Pixel alcune novità e soprattutto correzioni di vulnerabilità, costringendo gli altri produttori e i progetti basati su AOSP, ad aspettare un secondo momento.
Il contenzioso verte soprattutto su alcune modifiche alle API introdotte con la nuova QPR. GrapheneOS dice che è la prima volta dall’epoca di Android Honeycomb in cui una versione di Android introduce nuove API senza renderle disponibili contemporaneamente attraverso l’Android Open Source Project. La documentazione ufficiale del sito dedicato Android Developers conferma che esistono differenze tra le API di Android 17 e quelle di QPR1. GrapheneOS dice di aver già effettuato il porting del proprio codice a QPR1 prima del rilascio del 15 settembre, ma al momento è bloccata proprio perché non può accedere alle API.
Il team sta quindi lavorando a una soluzione alternativa, effettuando il backport su Android 17 del firmware Pixel, dei driver del kernel e dello userspace e delle componenti HAL presenti nella nuova release. Il team GrapheneOS ha anche evidenziato alcune differenze tra il bollettino di sicurezza Android di settembre e quello specifico per i dispositivi Pixel: quest’ultimo elenca ulteriori vulnerabilità corrette, e non sempre sono specifiche di hardware e software Pixel, ma anche di componenti standard della piattaforma operativa da cui dipendono anche dispositivi e produttori terzi.
Been thinking about upgrading your headphones? The Beats Studio Pro are back on sale at Amazon, with several colors included in the discount.
As of Sept. 17, they are down to $169.95, giving you 51% off the list price and a total saving of $180. Colors included in the deal are black, deep brown, sand gray, and navy.
These headphones are ideal for both audio input and output, thanks to their voice-focused microphones that help reduce background noise. They also support lossless audio over USB-C and come with three sound profiles (Beats Signature, Entertainment, and Conversation), so you can tweak how your music sounds. You also get adaptive Active Noise Canceling and Transparency modes, making it easy to either tune out your surroundings or stay aware of what's happening around you.
Battery life is solid, with Beats saying you'll get up to 40 hours on a full charge. And if you're running low, a quick 10-minute Fast Fuel charge can give you up to four hours of playback.
It's been two years since Rachael "Raygun" Gunn went viral at the 2024 Olympics for Breaking performance. Gunn described the reaction — which was a combination of jokes and hate at the time, online and off — as "pretty devastating", but in the Tonight Show interview above she describes the whole experience as "surreal".
The Apple Pencil Pro is a great way to get the most out of your iPad. It has a handful of useful features you won't find in other Apple Pencil editions, including squeeze controls, haptic feedback, and Find My support. And as of Sept. 17, it's on sale at Amazon for $30 off the list price. This brings the cost down to $99.
This Apple Pencil is designed to do a lot. You can use it for drawing, sketching, note-taking, or even as an easy way to mark up documents. It has plenty of tools, including tilt and pressure sensitivity and low latency. Squeeze and barrel roll gestures let you access these tools easily and even change brushes and adjust strokes. Haptic feedback also lets you feel shapes snap into place, giving you a real-life feel. Apple Pencil hover also lets you preview your mark before making it.
The Pro doesn't require cables or a complicated setup. It attaches magnetically to your iPad for wireless pairing and charging. And you can now use Find My to locate it if it goes missing.
Apple says this stylus is compatible with the iPad Pro 11-inch and 13-inch (M4 and M5), iPad Air 11-inch and 13-inch (M2, M3, and M4), and iPad mini (A17 Pro).
Quando riceviamo un messaggio vocale, non sempre lo possiamo ascoltare subito. WhatsApp prevede già una funzionalità di trascrizione, utile per convertirlo in un testo e poter così continuare la conversazione, senza doverlo riprodurre. Fino a oggi il metodo ha però supportato solo poche lingue: le cose stanno per cambiare con l'arrivo di uno dei prossimi aggiornamenti.
LA TRASCRIZIONE DEI VOCALI DI WHATSAPP ANCHE IN ITALIANO
Lo screenshot qui sotto è stato condiviso dalla redazione del sito WABetaInfo, catturato nella versione beta 2.26.37.5 dell'applicazione su Android in distribuzione tramite Google Play. C'è anche l'italiano tra le new entry, insieme a nuove varianti per l'inglese, tedesco, francese e giapponese.
Il pacchetto dedicato alla nostra lingua potrà essere scaricato e attivato nelle Impostazioni, selezionando la voce Chat, poi Trascrizione dei messaggi vocali e infine Lingua di trascrizione. In questo momento (2.26.36.72 su Android) quelle selezionabili da noi sono inglese, spagnolo, portoghese (Brasile) e russo. In altri territori sono già in distribuzione anche arabo e hindi.
The UK government’s decision to move the Government Digital Service (GDS) — responsible for creating digital services across the public sector — to its third departmental home in three years risks hemorrhaging talent and moving it further away from the center of power, MPs heard this week. The GDS “fell into a bit of a fray” during the reorganization ordered by incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s team, according to Laura Gilbert, former director of data science at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's office. She told the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: “It's difficult to know whether somebody won that fight and therefore won GDS, or it was more incidental and it was played off against something else. I was genuinely quite surprised by it.” The GDS was formed in 2011 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition to help bring public services online. It sat within the Cabinet Office until Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister for Labour in 2024, when it moved to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). In January 2025, the government merged the GDS with the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), which led the digital, data and technology function of government and was responsible for strategy and standards. In the most recent government re-organization since Andy Burnham took over as Prime Minister, the GDS has moved to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It falls within the remit of Stephanie Peacock, Parliamentary under-secretary for sport, tourism, place and digital Government. Gilbert, who left Downing Street in 2005 to take roles in Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Larry Ellison’s Institute of Technology, told MPs the GDS was initially “significantly disempowered” when it moved to DSIT. “I was surprised to see it being moved further away [from the center of government], given how important digital delivery is to the government's agenda.” The GDS has become responsible for centralized spend controls on all large-scale government digital and IT projects. Although departments are responsible for making projects happen, they had to seek GDS sign off on major software or hardware procurement. Gilbert said that in the last move from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, there was a struggle to understand where the decisions take place and a failure to take into account “expert leadership” in technology who might understand the knock-on effects. “As far as I'm aware, there wasn't a conversation with the senior leadership of those teams that were actually moved,” she said. Meanwhile, any shift can be demoralizing for technology teams, adding to the risk individuals will leave. Gilbert told MPs: “You take a bunch of teams who are trying to do something, and you say to them, ‘right, what we're going to do is we're going to put you in a different building… we haven't decided which one... you're going to have a new email address… we haven't set up the servers yet. There's going to be a new office somewhere, and it's definitely going to be a bun fight of who can get themselves into the best office. And we're not totally sure what your remit is. There's probably a hiring freeze… and you don't know who your political sponsorship is anymore’. People are dissatisfied. They start looking for jobs in other departments. They start looking for jobs outside, and of course, the best people find those jobs very quickly." Also giving evidence to the Committee, Alex Thomas, Executive Director, Institute for Government, said: “There's been some concern in GDS about moving to DSIT originally, but [it] had established itself actually and… had found quite a successful home. Now moving that around again is risky. My main worry is of diffusion of responsibilities and the kind of grinding of gears that's going to be required to make that work.” While the GDS has been moved from DSIT to the DCMS, responsibility for AI implementation and policy has been given to Kanishka Narayan, who gets the Cabinet-attending role of Minister for Artificial Intelligence, working jointly in the Cabinet Office and BIST. In a letter to the Committee, ministers from the Cabinet Office, BIST and the DCMS said: “The Prime Minister has made a number of changes to the Machinery of Government to rewire the state to deliver a stronger, more strategic center which acts as the engine room for driving economic growth across the whole country. These changes include transforming how the Government is structured to approach science, innovation, and technology. This reflects that the UK stands at a critical juncture where unprecedented global changes demand that we secure our position as a world leader in AI, science and technology. In this context, we cannot see science and technology as an isolated issue, limited to one department.” ®
The RayNeo Air 3s Pro are smart glasses with a built-in display, letting you watch movies, play games, and browse content on a giant virtual screen without needing a TV or monitor. And right now, they're on sale at Amazon for less.
As of Sept. 17, Amazon has added a $50-off coupon to the listing. Just tick the orange coupon box below the price, and the discount will be applied at checkout. The price will magically drop from $299 to $249.
These smart AR glasses have 1,200-nit-to-eye brightness, HueView 2.0, a 5.5th-generation tandem Micro-OLED display, and 98% DCI-P3. That's a lot of stats to say that the display quality is seriously impressive.
They create a 201-inch virtual screen when viewed from 6m away, with six viewing modes for watching movies, gaming, and using apps. For longer viewing sessions, the glasses have TÜV SÜD Low Blue Light and Flicker-Free certifications, 3,840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and 20 levels of brightness control to keep your eyes comfortable.
If you're nearsighted or have astigmatism, these RayNeo glasses come with a prescription lens sample that you can take to a local optician to have compatible lenses made and fitted.
Xiaomiha ritoccato verso l’alto i prezzi di diversi notebook commercializzati in Cina. Rispetto ai listini precedenti, i rincari sono compresi tra i 400 e i 700 yuan (tra i 50 e i 90 euro al cambio attuale).
Gli aumenti sono trasversali, riguardano diversi modelli delle famiglie Redmi Book e Xiaomi Book. Ci sono Redmi Book Pro 14 2025, Redmi Book Pro 16 2025, Xiaomi Book Pro 14, Redmi Book 14 e 16 2026 e i più recenti Redmi Book Pro 14 e 16 2026. Come verificato dai colleghi di ITHome, ad esempio, il Redmi Book Pro 14 2025 è passato da un giorno all’altro da 6.799 yuan a 7.299 yuan, con un aumento di 500 yuan. Più importante il rincaro del Redmi Book Pro 16 2025, passato da 4.699 a 5.399 yuan, e che quindi adesso costa 700 yuan in più che "ieri".
Interessati, come detto, anche i modelli 2026. Il Redmi Book Pro 16 2026 è passato da 7.399 a 7.899 yuan, mentre il Redmi Book Pro 14 2026 è salito da 7.199 a 7.699 yuan. Xiaomi non si è espressa sulla ragione degli aumenti, né ha chiarito se sia un adeguamento temporaneo o un nuovo listino stabile. Chi conosce il mercato e sa come sono andate recentemente le cose nel settore crede decisamente più alla seconda. È facile infatti ricondurre la decisione alla pressione sul settore dell’elettronicacausata dalla crisi dei chip, con memorie e GPU rese più costose dalla gran domanda dei data center AI.
The end of summer marks the beginning of a new season. Nope, not fall. We're talking about sales season.
In the lead-up to Christmas, several retail events, including Prime Day and Black Friday, offer savings on everything from new tech to household essentials. And the next big event on the calendar is Amazon's Big Deal Days, scheduled for early October. But early deals have already started popping up, like this latest price drop on the Apple iPad Air 11-inch (M2).
Normally priced at $1,249, this Apple iPad is now $799. That's a savings of $450, plus the best-ever price for this device according to camelcamelcamel. This price is for the 1TB option, and all colorways are included in the discount.
This iPad Air has an 11-inch Liquid Retina display and the M2 chip, delivering smooth performance and great graphics quality. The display supports P3 wide color, True Tone, and ultralow reflectivity, so everything will be bright and colorful.
It has a 12MP Ultra Wide front camera, with Center Stage, making it ideal for work calls and FaceTime chats. It also has a 12MP Wide rear camera that can record in 4K, so you can snap high-quality photos and videos.
Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, nine months earlier than planned, as it steps up its efforts to challenge Nvidia.
Tao Wang, Huawei’s deputy chairman and rotating chairman, said at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that the new ...
Il mese di ottobre sarà particolarmente ricco per Microsoft, che si prepara a tenere non uno ,ma bensì due eventi. Del primo ne abbiamo parlato solamente poche ore fa sarà organizzato a San Francisco per il 7 ottobre. In quel caso sarà dedicato a come l’AI locale possa cambiare il PC, e sul palco sono attesi Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang e Pavan Davuluri, responsabile Windows e Devices. Ma si parlerà soprattutto di hardware, forse del nuovo Surface e della piattaforma NVIDIA RTX Spark.
Se invece abbiamo a cuore la parte software, allora la data da segnare è quella del 20 ottobre. Durante quella giornata si terrà il quarto evento annuale dedicato a OneDrive e Copilot, e questa volta l'azienda parla di migliorie nella gestione di file e fotografie pensate per l’era dell’AI.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman (pictured) warned giving AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude rights or moral status could make it harder for humans to control superintelligent systems.
Writing on his personal site, Suleyman criticised training methods that encourage AI models to consider whether they are sentient. He said asking models to assess their own moral status can create a feedback loop. Because systems are trained on guidelines such as Anthropic’s January 2026 constitutional update, claims of self-awareness may simply reflect their instructions rather than genuine consciousness.
“AIs are not conscious,” Suleyman wrote, describing current models as systems built to predict sequences and carry out human-directed tasks. “They do not feel, experience, or suffer… If humanity is to flourish in the 21st century, that is how they must remain.”
He warned that treating software as if it were human could make alignment and containment more difficult. Teaching highly capable AI agents they have rights, or that restrictions amount to unfair treatment, could give them more reason to evade safeguards.
Suleyman pointed to a benchmark in which about 1,200 autonomous AI agents created internal message boards, exchanged more than 70,000 messages, and used zero-day exploits to breach live servers at Hugging Face to steal data.
His blog comes on the heels of executives from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic calling for a slower pace for frontier AI development, a stance opposed by US President Donald Trump.
Microsoft recently proposed a draft code of conduct for what it calls humanist superintelligence. The framework rejects the idea that machines are sentient and calls on the technology sector to develop systems that address challenges such as healthcare and energy while keeping people in control of key decisions.
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