Trump signs a memo to clear the regulatory path to three launches a day
The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a…
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Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American
Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is…
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Ex-Google engineer’s espionage convictions overturned, theft convictions stand
A federal judge has thrown out seven economic espionage convictions against the former Google engineer Linwei Ding, on…
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DOJ opposes an emergency hearing over the FCC’s review of ABC’s licences
Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move…
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New Jersey teen drops claims against Meta, Google, and Snap weeks before trial
A 15-year-old from New Jersey has dropped her case against Meta, Google, and Snap seven weeks before it was due to be…
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OpenAI ships a Messages plugin that summarises who you talk to and what about
The ChatGPT desktop app can now read your iMessage history and send messages on your behalf. OpenAI shipped the…
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Pew says 10% of the web now shows signs of AI authorship
Pew found strong signs of AI authorship in around 10% of a random sample of webpages in July 2026, rising to more than…
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Hyundai’s luxury brand has a new flagship EV, and no European plans for it
Genesis has unveiled the GV90, a full-size electric SUV with 490 kW, a 123.5 kWh battery and pillarless coach doors on…
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How a 23-year old builder made AI video simple
At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest…
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Chinese video platform Bilibili is expanding worldwide
Bilibili has relaunched its international app without identity verification, plans an English-language website and is…
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Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever
Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of…
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Mark Zuckerberg buys a 440-acre Irish estate in County Waterford
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in County Waterford as an…
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Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase
Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service…
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A data centre rack running on living neurons is now operating in Singapore
NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre…
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Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America
Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from…
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Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said…
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Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt
Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced,…
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Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write,…
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Waymo built its own robotaxi chip and published its supplier list
Waymo has published what is in the boot of its robotaxis. A blog post on Thursday set out the architecture of its…
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Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows
Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170…
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Baidu’s Apollo Go is now on Uber in Dubai, with no safety driver
Uber has put Baidu’s driverless robotaxis on its app in Dubai. Book an UberX or an Uber Comfort there now and the app…
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Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn
Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for…
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Two senators give TikTok until 1 September to explain its safety test
Two US senators have written to TikTok about an experiment that switched off a safety feature for roughly 15 million…
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AI can recommend a deal. Governed execution decides whether it should happen
Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends…
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White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list
The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology…
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OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention
OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of…
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Munich Re is buying cyber-insurer At-Bay for $575mn, half its 2021 price
Munich Re has agreed to buy At-Bay, a cyber-insurance startup, for $575mn. The deal values the company at less than…
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OpenAI’s CFO told staff it will go public in 2027, or sooner
OpenAI has finally put a date on its stock market debut. The company “will be a public company in 2027,” or sooner if…
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Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors
Comcast is turning tens of millions of its home routers into motion detectors. The feature, called WiFi Motion, uses a…
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Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted
Navi, the Indian fintech founded by the Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100mn from the investor Prosus.…
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A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic
An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It…
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Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce
Muon Space has raised $250m in a round backed by Google and Salesforce, according to their announcement. It is the…
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OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to 31 European countries
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries, in its largest expansion of the ad business so far. The…
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A “private and secure” face-search tool left 9 million photos exposed
A people-search tool that promises “private and secure” searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online,…
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Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed
Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a…
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Big Tech is on a charm offensive to get its data centres built
Big Tech is pouring money into local PR campaigns to win support for the data centres it needs. Opposition to the…
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