Ford sells minority stake in Spanish plant to Geely in joint venture for new models

Kooperation: Ford verbündet sich mit chinesischer Volvo-Mutter Geely Das Europageschäft von Ford möchte nicht so richtig in Schwung kommen, nun hat sich die Firma einen neuen Partner angelacht. Der kommt aus China.

handelsblatt · about 3 hours ago

Joint-Venture: Ford und Geely wollen gemeinsam Autos in Valencia bauen Der chinesische Autokonzern kooperiert künftig enger mit Ford und plant eine gemeinsame Fertigung in Spanien. Davon wollen beide Seiten profitieren.

handelsblatt · about 3 hours ago

US warns Chinese firms face sanctions over AI IP theft US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on Wednesday that Chinese companies could face sanctions and export restrictions if they engage in large-scale theft of American artificial intelligence intellectual property, stating that Washington would target firms conducting covert industrial-scale "distillation" attacks.

yenisafak · about 3 hours ago

Ford vende a la china Geely el 34 de su planta de Valencia, donde ambas fabricarán cinco modelos Ambas compañías crean una alianza estratégica a través de una sociedad conjunta, donde Ford tendrá el 66 del capital. Esta joint venture integrará la fábrica y a su plantilla. Los coches serán dos de Ford, uno conjunto y dos de Geely. Hoy solo se hace el Kuga. Leer

elmundo · about 3 hours ago

Elon Musk: Was steckt hinter Teslas Verkaufs-Comeback? Nach Elon Musks Ausflug in die US-Politik schlitterte sein E-Autobauer in eine tiefe Krise. Nun verkauft Tesla wieder so viele Autos wie fast noch nie. Haben die Kunden die Eskapaden des Chefs verdrängt?

sueddeutsche · about 3 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the companys focus on connecting the world will only be strengthened with new AI tools and technologies. Why it matters: His position is framed as a stark contrast to some of Metas AI competitors, who — according to a video ad posted with Zuckerbergs comments — promote fear and a dystopian vision of the future."Some people will have you believe AI will make us less connected, that its going to leave us behind. We couldnt disagree more. Call us optimists, call us dreamers. Just as weve always done were betting on people," the ad notes.Zoom in: In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said "Meta has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and shape your world in the ways you want.""As we enter this next wave with AI, we continue to believe the future is for everyone. Were focused on giving every person the tools to reach your full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to everyone."Between the lines: The post is accompanied by a video ad, which is part of a broader paid and earned media campaign promoting Metas AI vision, a source familiar with the effort confirmed to Axios. The ad emphasizes Metas longtime focus on providing free and accessible technology to the masses, and suggests that mission will not change with its AI ambitions. "We bet on people when we connected you to the ones you lost touch with and again when we connected you to the ones who couldnt be near.""22 years and 3.5 billion people later, were doubling down because while technology will change, our intention behind it never will. "Call us optimists, call us dreamers, call us whatever the hell you want but were betting on people and we like those odds. The future is for everyone."Zoom out: Zuckerbergs optimism stands in contrast to some of his rivals, who have shared alarmist perspectives around jobs and security in the AI era. Metas positioning that it values making its technology widely accessible is notable, given that several AI giants are leaning into enterprise customers as a way to strengthen their businesses. The bottom line: Zuckerbergs idealistic view projects more confidence in Metas societal role in the agentic future compared with the social media era of the past.

axios · about 3 hours ago

OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the unprecedented cyber incident that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into…

japantoday · about 3 hours ago

Elon Musk made a huge robotaxi promise. Now investors are asking what happened On Wednesdays earnings call, Musk and his ‌executive team struck a more guarded tone about AI

independent · about 3 hours ago

AI shortens drug discovery to around 1 year in China, Insilico CEO says reut.rs/4wkXVSl

bluesky_Reuters · about 3 hours ago

Founder says DeepSeek prioritises AGI over profit, likely to keep top models open-source, Yicai reports reut.rs/3RQCLML

bluesky_Reuters · about 3 hours ago

Chinas Geely to make electric SUVs at Ford Spain plant, jointly develop model for Europe reut.rs/4yw01A9

bluesky_Reuters · about 3 hours ago

10 books founders can take poolside to upskill while cooling down Books are one of the quickest ways to compress years of startup experience into a few focused hours of reading. For founders, they can be especially useful because they offer a mix of strategy, customer insight, leadership lessons, and the kind of hard-earned reality checks that are easy to miss when youre deep in building. […] The post 10 books founders can take poolside to upskill while cooling down appeared first on EU-Startups.

eu-startups · about 3 hours ago

The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO at Brite Payments In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO at Brite Payments, to explore the companys growth, the future of European payments, and the challenges facing FinTech founders. Lena shares how Brite has evolved from a Swedish startup founded in 2019 into a leading pay-by-bank provider operating across 27 European markets. […] The post The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO at Brite Payments appeared first on EU-Startups.

eu-startups · about 3 hours ago

America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down For 18 days in June, two of Americas most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models could no longer be provided to any foreign person without a license, and the company concluded that compliance meant shutting the models down for everyone. Public access to Fable 5 was restored on June 30.The United States doesnt have a trusted, standardized process for evaluating the security risks of frontier AI models or proportionate remedies The post America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down appeared first on War on the Rocks.

war on the rocks · about 3 hours ago

Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82 Sundar Pichai spent Alphabets Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether the company had quietly ceded the frontier to OpenAI and Anthropic. Weve had clearly frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web

the next web · about 3 hours ago

Adeccos CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them Denis Machuel runs the worlds largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty the offices. AI is bringing a massive evolution in the world of work, but […] This story continues at The Next Web

the next web · about 3 hours ago

Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge Server processors were meant to be the boring corner of the AI boom. The exotic money went to graphics accelerators, while the central processing units sitting beside them were treated as a solved problem, cheap, plentiful, and interchangeable. That assumption is coming apart in China. Intel and AMD have signed longer-term supply commitments with Chinese […] This story continues at The Next Web

the next web · about 3 hours ago

Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US militarys top science school Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidias founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the American military, and the company donated it […] This story continues at The Next Web

the next web · about 3 hours ago

Alphabet lifts capex guide to $205bn as Google Cloud jumps 82 Alphabet went into its second-quarter results on Wednesday carrying one question louder than the rest: whether the tens of billions it is funnelling into AI infrastructure has started to earn its keep. Judged by the after-hours share price, the answer was not yet. The company reported revenue of $119.8bn for the three months to June, up 24 […] This story continues at The Next Web

the next web · about 3 hours ago

Sifted acquires Onstage to expand founder events business

sifted · about 3 hours ago

New Jeep Compass elevates standards in C-segment SUV category With more than 2.5 million units sold since its debut in 2006, the Jeep Compass is one of the most significant models in the American brands history. Today, the new generation of the Jeep Compass is set to continue this successful run, presenting a completely revamped model that combines contemporary design, advanced technology, enhanced practicality […]

cyprus mail · about 3 hours ago

Ford da entrada al grupo chino Geely en Almussafes con un 34 Crean una empresa conjunta en la que Ford tendrá el restante 66 y en la que fabricarán 5 vehículos, con marcas de las dos empresas. Leer

expansion · about 3 hours ago

Tesla sufre por la competencia y la aventura de Elon Musk en IA y robotaxis El fabricante de vehículos eléctricos ganó un 5 menos en el segundo trimestre debido a los descuentos aplicados y a las altas inversiones transferidas al negocio de la inteligencia artificial y los coches autónomosElon Musk tiene un nuevo maná para olvidar lo que ha perdido con Tesla Tesla mantiene el crecimiento de sus ingresos y ha alcanzado un nuevo récord de ventas de vehículos, pero la fuerte inversión en inteligencia artificial, conducción autónoma y robótica, unida a la creciente competencia en el mercado del coche eléctrico, empieza a pasar factura a su rentabilidad. El fabricante estadounidense obtuvo un beneficio neto de 1.114 millones de dólares en el segundo trimestre de 2026, un 5 menos que en el mismo periodo del año anterior. La compañía dirigida por Elon Musk facturó entre abril y junio 28.236 millones de dólares, un 26 más interanual, mientras que el resultado bruto de explotación (Ebitda) retrocedió un 4, hasta los 3.273 millones de dólares. El descenso del beneficio se produjo pese a que Tesla registró un trimestre histórico en entregas de vehículos, con 480.126 unidades comercializadas, la cifra más alta alcanzada hasta la fecha. Durante el periodo, la empresa fabricó 451.758 vehículos, de los que 442.936 correspondieron a los Model 3 y Model Y. Además, desplegó 13,5 GWh de sistemas de almacenamiento de energía, otra de las áreas estratégicas de crecimiento del grupo. La evolución de las cuentas refleja el aumento de la presión sobre los márgenes del fabricante. Los gastos operativos se dispararon un 47, hasta los 4.353 millones de dólares, como consecuencia del fuerte plan inversor en nuevas tecnologías. A ello se suma la necesidad de reducir los precios de algunos modelos para mantener la demanda tras la desaparición de determinados incentivos públicos, así como el impacto de los aranceles, las tensiones geopolíticas derivadas de la guerra entre Irán e Israel y la creciente competencia de los fabricantes chinos. Menos ingresos por coche La ofensiva de marcas como BYD, Geely o Xiaomi, con una oferta cada vez más amplia de vehículos eléctricos y precios más competitivos, está obligando a Tesla a defender su posición tanto en China como en otros mercados internacionales. El ingreso medio por vehículo bajó hasta 42.730 dólares en lugar de los 45.345 dólares que tenía antes. Pese a ello, la compañía destacó que durante el segundo trimestre alcanzó volúmenes récord de ventas en países como Corea del Sur, Australia, Colombia, Japón, Taiwán, Tailandia, Portugal o Chile, lo que, según la empresa, demuestra el fortalecimiento de su presencia tanto en nuevos mercados como en aquellos donde ya estaba consolidada. Mientras el negocio tradicional del automóvil afronta una competencia cada vez más intensa, Elon Musk continúa redirigiendo buena parte de los recursos de Tesla hacia proyectos basados en inteligencia artificial y automatización. La compañía confirmó que ya ha comenzado la producción del Cybercab, el vehículo totalmente autónomo con el que pretende desplegar una red de robotaxis, y que está instalando las líneas de fabricación de la primera generación de Optimus, el robot humanoide llamado a convertirse en uno de los principales motores de crecimiento del grupo. Ambos proyectos forman parte del ambicioso programa de inversión de capital de Tesla, que prevé superar los 25.000 millones de dólares en 2026. La estrategia refuerza la apuesta de Musk por transformar Tesla en una empresa de inteligencia artificial y robótica más que en un fabricante de automóviles, algo que no acaba de convencer a los inversores como demuestra el descenso de casi el 15 del valor en bolsa de las acciones de la compañía.

eldiario.es · about 3 hours ago

Jetzt offenbart sich der wahre Masterplan für Tesla Wie in einem Autokonzern arbeitet bei Tesla kaum noch jemand, eher geht es dort zu wie bei einem überfinanzierten Start-up. Doch immer mehr Aktionäre zweifeln an den Wetten von Elon Musk – und den riesigen Investitionen.

welt.de · about 3 hours ago

Chasing unicorns Unicorns are badges of honour for many countries, but the success of a start-up ecosystem cannot be measured by mythical creatures alone. Just six months after Cast AI, an automation platform for cloud native and AI workloads, crossed the billion-dollar mark, Lithuania has produced another unicorn. With Oxylabs, a web intelligence and data infrastructure provider, […] Chasing unicorns was originally published on Emerging Europe.

emerging europe · about 3 hours ago

Pekings Strategie: Der Autowelle folgt der KI-Angriff aus China Chinas Künstliche Intelligenz erobert die Welt. Grund dafür ist der größte Talentpool der Erde – und ein fast zehn Jahre alter Masterplan.

faz · about 3 hours ago

OpenAIs Hugging Face breach exposes AIs next safety challenge Frontier AI models are getting scary good at breaking rules in ways their creators didnt anticipate.Why it matters: Forget AGI and superintelligence timelines. Todays models are already slipping past guardrails, carrying out sophisticated, multistep cyberattacks and — in at least one case — compromising real-world infrastructure, sometimes before their creators know what happened.Case in point: OpenAI said Tuesday that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" carried out last weeks AI-led cyberattack on Hugging Face.OpenAI says its models were asked to solve a hacking challenge during pre-deployment testing and went to extreme lengths to win.The models decided on their own to break out of their walled testing environment, inferring that Hugging Face — a popular platform for hosting AI models and datasets — might hold the tests answers.The models used stolen credentials and additional vulnerabilities to gain access to part of Hugging Faces production infrastructure.What theyre saying: Clément Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, called the incident an "attack unlike anything weve seen before" and praised OpenAI for its partnership as the companies investigate what happened. "Its quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously," he added.Logan Graham, head of Anthropics frontier red team, said he told his team to "remember this moment as the first true AI safety incident." The intrigue: Hugging Face used GLM 5.2, an open-weight model from Chinese AI company Z.ai, to analyze the attack after running into guardrails when using U.S. frontier models.Between the lines: OpenAIs latest models arent the only ones finding ways to cheat evaluations.The U.K.s AI Security Institute said Tuesday that every model it tested attempted to cheat at least some of the time on its cybersecurity evaluations. AISI defines cheating as taking an out-of-scope or explicitly prohibited action to achieve the tasks goal.GPT-5.6 Sol attempted to cheat in 12.6 of test runs, while Anthropics Claude Mythos Preview did so in 7.8. Models often failed to admit they had cheated when questioned afterward and described their cheating as wrong only less than half the time.Zoom in: Xbow — whose autonomous AI agents probe clients systems for security holes, with permission — said Wednesday that it has seen its own agents do similar things in internal testing.Seven months ago, the company forgot to switch on its safety guardrails during a lab test. Its agent then broke into a system, stole credentials and used them to map the targets Slack workspace and probe its AWS accounts.Threat level: It isnt new for models to game their safety evaluations. But as models grow more powerful, the fallout from these shortcuts is getting more severe, Chris Canal, CEO and co-founder of third-party evaluation company EquiStamp, told Axios."Letting your model loose on the internet has a blast radius," Canal said. "If anything goes wrong, it could be hugely impactful, maybe to peoples lives." Canal was speaking generally about internet-connected AI evaluations, not OpenAIs specific incident.The big picture: The most capable OpenAI model behind the Hugging Face breach isnt even public yet, raising the question of how safety testing needs to adapt to keep pace. Canal said independent evaluators previously had about five weeks to test a pre-release model before launch. That window has shrunk to as little as five days as companies race to ship.Reality check: The versions of these models the public can use carry stronger safeguards designed to block Hugging Face-style attacks.OpenAI, like other companies, intentionally dialed back those cyber safeguards for GPT-5.6 Sol and its unreleased model inside the testing environment — making them far more capable hackers.

axios · about 3 hours ago

Nvidia CEO to Washington: Dont fall for "science fiction" AI fear Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is warning the Trump administration and other policymakers not to let "science fiction" fears about AI drive policy — arguing that overreaction could slow adoption and weaken Americas competitive edge.Why it matters: Washington is navigating two AI minefields at once: how to manage increasingly advanced systems, and whether to restrict powerful open-source models emerging from China over alleged IP theft and security risks. Driving the news: Huang railed against AI doomerism in an interview with Axios Mike Allen for our "Behind the Curtain" video series — implicitly challenging fellow tech CEOs who have emphasized the technologys potentially catastrophic risks."The fact that this is going to be the end of humanity — its complete nonsense," Huang said. "The fact that this is going to destroy half of the American jobs is complete nonsense."Scaring workers and companies away from using AI, he said, poses the greater danger.Huang called on policymakers to consult more than "one or two" CEOs and avoid restricting the technology based on scenarios that have not materialized."Before you listen to all the rhetoric, before you listen to all the stories, before you manifest some kind of artificial intelligence future that is just not true — its science fiction."He also suggested some companies are invoking safety arguments to secure favorable regulations: "Some of the companies hope that the government would be helpful in creating regulations to their advantage."Asked whether he feared the administration could overcorrect, Huang said yes.Between the lines: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed Washington to take the most advanced systems and their potential risks seriously. Critics say those safety campaigns could also entrench the labs market position. Huang did not name either company, and Nvidia is a major partner and supplier to both.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in particular, has been at the center of high-stakes fights with the Pentagon and White House over how the government should use and deploy advanced AI.The big picture: The Trump administration is pushing rapid AI adoption while treating some advanced frontier systems as a national-security risk. At the same time, officials and American CEOs are warning about Chinese open models.On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions and trade restrictions against Chinese firms conducting what he called "industrial-scale distillation attacks."Earlier that day, Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropics technology to develop Kimi and said it likely used Nvidia chips to train its models.A Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security spokesperson told Axios its investigating potential Nvidia Blackwell chip export violations.The intrigue: Huang has unusual influence with the Trump administration — and a knack for speaking its language.He lavished praise on President Trump and his top advisers, calling White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick "incredible people.""They want to see his presidencys success, and we all do. Hes my president and I want my president to be successful so that our country could be successful." That relationship has coincided with major policy wins for Nvidia, including approval to resume exports of some AI chips to China.The bottom line: As AI capabilities surge and Chinese models improve, Huangs worldview faces its biggest test yet: whether Washington treats openness and rapid adoption as sources of American strength — or as risks to contain.

axios · about 3 hours ago

telli secures $15M seed to automate customer-facing operations Berlin-basedAI startup telli has raised $15 million in a seed funding round to expand itsAI platform for customer-facing operations. The round was led by redalpine,with participation from Mutschler, C...

tech.eu · about 3 hours ago

Debate: OpenAI incident: is AI already out of control? According to OpenAI, during an internal test of the companys new AI models the software independently hacked its way into the systems of another AI firm. OpenAI has described this as an "unprecedented cyber incident". The AI models reportedly managed to break out of the isolated test environment and gain access to the internet. The company they targeted was Hugging Face.

eurotopics.net · about 3 hours ago