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Explained: Why the UK is Looking to AI for Cyber Defence

The UK Government has committed £90m to SMEs, while calling on AI companies to strengthen the nation's defences and sign the Cyber Resilience Pledge

Tesla slips one-sentence disclosure of a mysterious $2 billion AI hardware acquisition into its latest filing

A single line in a new Tesla regulatory document says the company "entered into an agreement to acquire an AI hardware company."

Claude Design just cut 60% of your designer's week

Claude Design shipped April 17 alongside Opus 4.7, in research preview. The coverage split cleanly. One camp: Figma’s stock dropped 7% and commentators argued about what that means for the design software industry. Another camp: the tool has real rough edges and commentators argued about whether those break the story. Both frames miss the point.

Is Elon Musk building the AI Avengers?

As the internet digests the SpaceX-Cursor deal, we've got the scoop on another startup Musk explored a partnership with.

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

Our commitment to community safety

Mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in today’s world. These incidents are a reminder of how real the threat of violence is—and how quickly violent intent can move from words to action.

xAI

xAI builds Grok, an AI chatbot with voice chat, image and video generation, real-time search, and advanced reasoning. Try Grok at grok.com.

Vibe Check: GPT-5.5 Has It All

OpenAI’s new model is a top-end senior engineer—and easy to talk to

Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.

Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

Google DeepMind is partnering with leading consultancies to bridge the AI adoption gap and drive agentic transformation with frontier models and expert research.

Exa Highlights

Exa Highlights extracts dense, query-specific excerpts from web pages so agents can reason over less context with higher accuracy.

You’re the Bread in the AI Sandwich

Plus: Trust batteries, and how many agents we’ll have in the future