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Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced
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Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
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Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
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10 Platforms for AI Visibility and Link Building in 2026
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Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
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Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent
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SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears
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Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led
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Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn
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World Foundation raises $52 million in token sale as proof-of-human demand accelerates
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The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
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Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables
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OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
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Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings
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Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.
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Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.
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Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail
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Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
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Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts
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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA
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SoftBank is reportedly weighing a deal for Swiss robotics startup Gravis
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Wise shares tumble after US regulator rejects its trust bank charter bid
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TechEx Europe 2026 returns to Amsterdam, bringing together Europe’s enterprise technology leaders
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Vietnam wants under-16s to keep their accounts, just not post on them
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AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots
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Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains
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Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn
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Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging
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Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs
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Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled
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AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
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Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup
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Jeff Bezos has been approached to buy a stake in Liverpool FC. Amazon already holds the Premier League TV rights.
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Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
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AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
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Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one
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Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months
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Drone makers race to build navigation that survives warzone jamming
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Apple’s privacy policy reveals an AI shopping assistant is coming to the Apple Store app
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Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
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Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.
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OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind
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AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
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Tesla sold 25% more cars and made 57% less operating profit. The AI spending is the reason.
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Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
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Google now lets you sign in to your account with a selfie video
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A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon
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Uber cuts 10% of customer-service jobs and, for the first time, blames AI
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China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%
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Google reveals it holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares after the IPO
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White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
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Warren accuses AI firms of using trade deals to escape oversight
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Alphabet lifts capex guide to $205bn as Google Cloud jumps 82%
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Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school
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Electrified cars power Europe’s car market as Chinese brands hit a record share
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Getlink warns unstable EU software could delay Channel Tunnel biometric borders
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Nokia Q2 profit climbs 18% as AI data-centre demand doubles cloud sales
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Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge
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Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them
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Trump reports about $1.4bn in crypto income as digital assets eclipse property
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Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%
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Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI
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IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2
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OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
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Meta avoids second social media addiction trial as teenage plaintiff drops case
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White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years
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Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer
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Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform
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Arrakis emerges from stealth with $38 million to bring AI to factories and supply chains
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Europe’s EV market share tops 25 percent for the first time as June registrations surge nearly 40 percent
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Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT
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Samsung unveils the Z Fold8 Ultra, a reimagined Z Fold8, and intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked in London
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Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes
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The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security
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AppLovin Backs Velocity As The AI Industry Looks Beyond Subscriptions For Growth
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9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)
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NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world
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Revolut hits $115 billion valuation as it becomes the first global fintech with an Australian banking licence
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OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington
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Oracle says one AI data centre could cost it a $7bn power guarantee
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Marco Rubio tells US diplomats to play down fears of a tech ‘kill switch’
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A 25-year-old just raised $180M to build a US bank from scratch
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Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data. The company took nearly a year to say so.
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This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.
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Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
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US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years
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Halliday made 2025’s worst smart glasses. Its camera-free comeback is aimed at your meetings.
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A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre
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UK businesses have tripled their AI adoption. Most are still barely scratching the surface.
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Samsung reportedly in talks to back Mistral at €20bn valuation
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Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan
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Origin Energy investigates potential breach of customer data
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Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement
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Nvidia supplier Wistron opens $700m Texas factory to build Grace Blackwell superchips
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University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents
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Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow
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TikTok’s US security chief to face the House China committee on September 15
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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face
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Intel confirms more layoffs in its data center unit as stock rallies on turnaround momentum
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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
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Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster
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Sila raises $300M to fast-track gigascale anode production and shore up US battery supply chains
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GM beats Q2 earnings and announces gas-powered Cadillacs as nearly $11 billion EV retreat nears completion
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The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
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London robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M Series A, with Bosch set to manufacture its wheeled robots at scale
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Intel Foundry lands its first named outside customer: Fortinet
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Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
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Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation
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Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters
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Volkswagen’s new e-bike has a rearview camera, radar, and fighter-pilot smart glasses
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Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
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Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
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This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software
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Adobe’s Project Indigo can now critique your photos, and quietly rebuild them
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An AI just broke an 87-year-old maths problem, in a tweet sent during the World Cup final
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Cascade raises $3.5M to spot construction projects before the bid exists
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Water UK says AI data centre plans ignore where the water comes from
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deltaVision raises €10.2M to build the plumbing for in-orbit refuelling
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Tesla’s cash burn will test investor faith in its AI bets
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Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister
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Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching
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US and China reportedly plan a fresh round of AI talks in September
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South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed
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France moves a step closer to banning under-15s from social media
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Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet
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China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports
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Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months
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Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight
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IQE bets on AI data-centre demand to drive 20% sales growth in 2026
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Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history
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Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.
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A Korean AI model scores every possible driving path for safety before the car moves. CVPR called it a highlight.
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Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.
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Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software
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Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. First flight is planned for 2027.
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Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close
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A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
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AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.
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Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
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Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
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OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.
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Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.
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Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.
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EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.
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AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.
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A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’
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YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.
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The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT
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The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat
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The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.
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Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner
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Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres
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An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.
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Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts
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Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces
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SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown
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Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
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New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts
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Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states
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Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.
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Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage
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Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks
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Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification
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AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
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Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot
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Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.
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The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy
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Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation
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China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
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France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
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The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
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Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.
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Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
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Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood
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Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.
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Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
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A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
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Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage
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Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
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Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
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Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed
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Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.
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Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low
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TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.
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Spanish satellite startup Sateliot wants €150 million to beam 5G directly to smartphones from orbit
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Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion
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Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case
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Tesla made a $225 balance bike for toddlers. It has no motor, no pedals, and is already sold out.
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Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month
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An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
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Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
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The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms
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Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises
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Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
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Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene
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China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt
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ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales
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While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets
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Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
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