Letara raises ¥2.6bn (roughly $16mn) for hybrid rocket engines the law does not call explosive
Letara, a Hokkaido University spinout, has raised about ¥2.6bn, roughly $16mn, for hybrid rocket engines that use…
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Researchers found 768 leaked AWS keys that still work, and the containment policy leaves plenty possible
Truffle Security found 768 leaked AWS keys granting full control of corporate accounts, including 526 root keys, with…
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TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023
TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of…
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Anthropic could raise $100bn, ten times Europe’s largest listing in decades
Anthropic could raise around $100bn in a listing as early as October, exceeding SpaceX’s record, with backers modelling…
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A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play
Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW…
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4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature
For the longest time, the tech industry’s unofficial motto was “if the product is free, you are the product.” Most of…
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Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself
Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’…
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Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro
Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams,…
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Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai
Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling,…
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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads
Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000…
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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been…
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China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim
China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas,…
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Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios.…
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Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr…
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Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The…
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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks
Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The…
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World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines
It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21,…
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Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing
Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The…
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Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them
Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s…
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Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country
Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax…
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AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability
Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field…
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Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory
Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops…
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Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions
The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts…
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Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book
Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it…
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Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed
Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth.…
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Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions
Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or…
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New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time
New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years…
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Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault
Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential…
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Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic
Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would…
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Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff
Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs…
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Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year
Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co…
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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic
DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s…
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Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls
Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares…
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YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline
YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather…
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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production
Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles.…
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Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects
Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound…
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