Investor urges Snap to raise outside capital for Specs
Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap’s board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B…
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ASML’s chip packaging move threatens Besi shares, Bank of America says
Bank of America cut BE Semiconductor Industries to neutral and nearly halved its price target, saying the share price…
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Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it…
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Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully…
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BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration
BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail…
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Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill
Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person…
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Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work
Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San…
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Zapata Quantum joins IBM Quantum Network to build quantum applications
Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined the IBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use…
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9 best requirements management tools for functional safety (IEC 61508)
The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a…
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Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats
Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced…
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Tango communities go live for breast cancer research
Mountain View, California, October 5, 2026, TechnologyWire This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, live-streaming platform…
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Europe’s Mistral launches Large 4 to challenge China’s lead in open AI models
Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful…
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SAP agrees to acquire Belgian AI workforce startup TechWolf
SAP has agreed to buy TechWolf, a Belgian company whose AI maps the skills and daily work of a firm’s employees. The…
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10 best third-party risk management software platforms for 2026
Most companies hand sensitive data to dozens of outside vendors, from payroll providers to cloud hosts. When one of…
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Anthropic IPO filing shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18M last year
Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the…
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Sam Altman says OpenAI will disclose more incidents of rogue AI models
OpenAI is preparing to disclose more incidents in which its AI models acted without permission, chief executive Sam…
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Italy opens investigation into AI music company Suno over its terms
Italy’s competition authority, the AGCM, has opened an investigation into Suno, the US company whose AI service turns…
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Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting
Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI…
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Ofcom opens investigation into Meta over Instagram Instants risk checks
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, the UK regulator said on Tuesday.…
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Chip simulation startup Vinci raises $250m at a $1.5bn valuation
Vinci, the AI software company based in Palo Alto that simulates physics for use in chip and hardware design, has…
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ABC tells Australian AI inquiry its content has likely been scraped
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation told a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday that AI companies have probably already…
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Google reportedly nears $1bn-plus nuclear power deal with Constellation
Alphabet’s Google is close to an agreement to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy, Bloomberg reported on…
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DeepSeek reportedly nears $12bn funding round backed by Tencent and CATL
DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, or about $12bn, in a new funding round, Bloomberg News reported…
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Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach
An Accenture contractor has been removed from FBI work following a breach that exposed the personal data of thousands…
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Amsterdam’s Hadrian raises $40M for AI-powered offensive security
Hadrian, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $40m to expand in Europe and the US. Forgepoint Capital…
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Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city…
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Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police
Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law…
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San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports
San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed…
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Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed
Nokia’s chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy…
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Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk
Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an “alarmist approach” to…
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Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use
A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number…
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Meta, TikTok and X challenge Ofcom over online safety data, Reuters reports
Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters…
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TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app
TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly…
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Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision
Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under…
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Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO
Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance…
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Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model
Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first…
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