Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts…
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Meta blocks TikTok ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US and Japan
Meta has banned ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, from advertising on Facebook and Instagram in seven…
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Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli…
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President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’
US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of…
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OpenAI expects a $70bn revenue run rate by year-end, Bloomberg reports
OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday.…
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Healthcare AI cannot improve outcomes until it understands the human context behind every claim
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industry’s biggest operational problems remain…
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8 best AI app builders for 2026
Which AI app generator turns a prompt into a working business app on your own data, with logins and roles from day one…
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Sam Altman tells Vanity Fair Elon Musk is a bully he will still work with
Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The…
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US suspends Microsoft and seven other firms from green card programme
The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets…
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Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away
Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27…
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Apple moves its deal team back under the CFO after seven years
Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the…
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Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
Europe’s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and…
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Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research
Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White…
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SAP’s Sean Kask: software firms must become AI companies or perish
Established software companies have to rebuild their products around AI, not add it as one more feature, SAP’s chief AI…
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Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule
Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four…
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Legora CEO says software sovereignty is an excuse not to compete globally
Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for…
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Station F and Anthropic say the AI boom is drawing startups back in person
AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F…
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Apple confirms its ‘Welcome home’ launch for 13 October in New York
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows…
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AI model evaluator Arena nearly doubles its valuation to $3.1B
Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they…
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Odyssey-3 drives a car in India and runs humanoids from one world model
Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids,…
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Google launches workplace AI agent that gets its own email address
Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the…
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Pentagon offers PsiQuantum a conditional loan of up to $150m
PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War’s…
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Amazon replaces Fire tablets with Android Alexa Tablets from $229.99
Amazon is replacing its Fire tablets with a new line of Alexa Tablets. They are the first Amazon tablets to run Android…
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Waymo closes a $5bn loan, its first debt deal, to fund robotaxi growth
Waymo has closed a $5bn term loan, the first time the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company has raised money through debt.…
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Nvidia commits $1bn to US science over the next five years
Quantum computing, healthcare and energy security are the fields Nvidia wants to strengthen with commitments it values…
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Europe’s startups had their best quarter in 4 years, Crunchbase data shows
European startups raised $25bn in the third quarter, their strongest quarter for venture funding in four years. In…
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ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents
Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s…
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Uber and Pony.ai will test Chinese robotaxis in London within weeks
Pony.ai will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, ahead of a service on Uber.…
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VEIR raises $110M to swap copper for superconductors in AI data centres
VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI…
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One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over…
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Voltus raises $225M to turn homes and batteries into power for data centres
Voltus has raised $225 million in a Series D round. The San Francisco company pays businesses and homes to cut, shift…
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Just Eat Takeaway orders grow again after 55 months of decline, Prosus says
Just Eat Takeaway’s orders grew year on year in September for the first time in 55 months, its owner Prosus said on…
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Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn
Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The…
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Tetris makes its North American in-car debut at New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con visitors can step inside the new 2027 Volkswagen Atlas and experience AirConsole in-car gaming…
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Mate Security wins CyberSecurity Breakthrough award for AI cyberdefense
CyberSecurity Breakthrough has named Mate Security the “Security Response Solution of the Year”. The award is part of…
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NextBlock backs Soda Labs with $3M to bring privacy to public blockchains
NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give…
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