At 23:23 on 5 April, a 23-year-old university student in Taichung transmitted a falsified General Alarm signal into the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation’s internal radio system. Four trains travelling at up to 300 km/h received the highest-priority emergency alert and switched to manual braking. The entire high-speed rail network was disrupted for 48 minutes. […]

Colin Angle, the robotics engineer who co-founded iRobot and spent 25 years turning the Roomba into the world’s most widely adopted home robot, has unveiled the prototype for his next act: a four-legged, plush-covered AI companion designed to follow you around your house, adapt to your daily habits, and make you feel something when it […]

Faraday Future announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million through convertible promissory notes, bringing its total financing over the past two months to $70 million. The company says the capital is sufficient to fund Phase 1 of its robotics business plan through the end of 2026. The stock, which trades on Nasdaq under […]

Cybersecurity researchers at Cyera have disclosed four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw that, when chained together, allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, and establish persistent control over a compromised host. The flaws, collectively dubbed “Claw Chain,” affect OpenClaw’s OpenShell managed sandbox backend and its MCP loopback runtime. All four have been patched in OpenClaw […]

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12.3 billion across three startups, and the pace is accelerating. The Rivian founder and CEO, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT, is now simultaneously running an electric vehicle manufacturer, an autonomous micromobility company, and an industrial AI robotics startup, each attracting capital at a speed that […]

  Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, according to a global survey of 625 leaders published by Boston Consulting Group. The research, titled Split Decisions, polled 351 CEOs and 274 board members at companies with at least $100 million in annual revenue and found a consistent pattern: […]

John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than […]

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI […]

Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. […]

Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and forced schools to spend heavily on combating a youth mental health crisis. The settlements, filed on Friday in federal court in Oakland, California, leave Meta Platforms […]