Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month
Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data…
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Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74…
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His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code
A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress…
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Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was
A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they…
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Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July
Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home…
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TCS buys Porsche’s MHP for €320m and lands a €1.25bn contract with it
Tata Consultancy Services is buying MHP, the management and IT consultancy Porsche has owned for years, for €320m, and…
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Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones
Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process, according to…
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Twitch and Amazon face a class action over livestream AI training
A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The…
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Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base
Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it…
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Employer of record or entity: choose before someone chooses for you
Almost nobody plans how to employ people abroad. They solve one urgent hire, and three years later that improvised…
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Velocity named AdTech Platform of the Year as AI reshapes digital advertising
Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages,…
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XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run
XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first…
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GoWish, the Danish wishlist app, is valued at more than $200mn after its last raise
GoWish has raised fresh funding at a valuation of more than $200mn, according to Bloomberg, which reported the round on…
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Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power
Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC,…
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Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a…
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UK fintech funding has fallen to its lowest level in at least a decade
Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years, according to Bloomberg, which…
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Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one
Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to…
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Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at more than $30bn
Nvidia has been discussing an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search company at more than $30bn,…
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New Zealand joins the global push to keep under-16s off social media
New Zealand will introduce a bill requiring platforms to verify users are over 16, though two of three coalition…
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SoftBank plans record $6.3bn retail bond sale in Japan
SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund…
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Claude outage hits multiple models again
Anthropic’s Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude…
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Galbot Robots complete 100 consecutive rallies against a tennis champion
Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15…
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Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back
Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to…
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A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason
A robot built by Beijing’s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain…
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ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press
OpenAI has added a shortcut that surfaces your four most recent photos when you long press the plus button in ChatGPT…
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Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here
Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model…
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Alibaba is raising $10.2bn and spending all of it on AI
Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI…
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A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds
A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than…
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A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window,…
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Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year
Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15%…
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Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls
An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023,…
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China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers
Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of…
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The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away
LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the…
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Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in
Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of…
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This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month
Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a…
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AI data centres are taking the capacitors carmakers need
Chinese carmakers say printed circuit boards and multilayer ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short globally, with…
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