China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch
China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single…
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An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost
Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships,…
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Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs
Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday.…
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Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days
NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German…
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Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn
Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn,…
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Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back
Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the…
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Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips
Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as…
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Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping
Alibaba’s two most senior executives bought about $15.3m of their own company’s shares on Monday. The stock had just…
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Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees
Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own…
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MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-lead $3M investment in Oro to scale agentic finance
For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot…
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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after the IPO, a disclosure shows
Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on 23 June, roughly a fortnight after the company completed the…
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Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among…
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The UK and Ukraine have signed a declaration on AI-enabled military capabilities
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the…
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Apple has a Mac mini ready, and it may be Tim Cook’s last product
Apple is preparing to release a new Mac mini within days, ahead of its September iPhone event, according to a Bloomberg…
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Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection
The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National…
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Sam Altman says AI still has not had its iPhone moment
Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it…
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Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI
Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview…
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How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a…
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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over
A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported…
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Europe’s EV share hit 25% in July as sales jumped 51%
Electric cars took a 25% share of European registrations in July, with sales up 51% year on year against 4.1% growth…
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A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery
An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it…
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Rivian EVs are getting a software update that warns you what’s ahead
Rivian is bringing Rivian OS 2.0 and Waze real-time alerts to all R1 and R2 models, still without Apple CarPlay or…
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Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days
A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime…
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UPS is investing more than $2bn across international, healthcare and supply chain
UPS has told CNBC it is investing more than $2bn across its international, healthcare and supply chain businesses,…
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SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips
SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and…
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OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday,…
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Walmart went from zero to 100 charging stations in under two years
Walmart has opened its 100th EV fast-charging station, at a Supercenter in Monument, Colorado, and now operates in 20…
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OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce
OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back…
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The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next
When I had back surgery, I assumed recovery would be linear. I thought each week would bring a little less pain, a…
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Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036
Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is…
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The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers
The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with…
Read at source →Trump wants a $103,265 fee on new H-1B visas
The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B…
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Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects
Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke…
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The “GPT moment” for robots is already here. It’s just not in your home yet
The $14 Billion Robot Company That Doesn’t Make a Single Robot Inside Skild AI, the Pittsburgh startup building the…
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Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight
Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in…
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Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%
PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8%…
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