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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OpenAI is in talks with Abu Dhabi’s MGX and BlackRock for a $30B round
OpenAI is in talks with UAE funds including MGX, which may put in as much as $10B together, and with BlackRock, to…
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At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI
Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems…
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OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU
OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change…
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Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs made unapproved edits to its wikis. They also tried and…
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize…
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US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke…
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Security teams are starting to treat AI like staff, and that means managing it
Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about…
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Collibra acquires Munich’s trail ML to automate AI governance
Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether…
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OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design
OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example,…
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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the…
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Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents
Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access…
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PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada
PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client,…
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Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter…
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Google says some Android apps need developer tuning on Intel Googlebooks
Google has said a small number of complex Android apps and games need developer tuning to run properly on the Intel…
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Risotto launches an ‘Autonomous IT Engineer’ for complex IT tickets
Anyone who has ever worked at a large enterprise knows the drill. You submit an IT ticket for a complex software issue,…
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Reclinker raises £10m to turn demolition waste back into cement
Reclinker, a startup that turns demolition waste back into cement, has raised £10m in a Series A round. It will use the…
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Sam Altman says AI money in US politics is clearly not working
During the first episode of Decoded, Politico’s podcast, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the money AI companies…
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Deliveroo is putting delivery robots on the pavements of five UK towns
Deliveroo has partnered with the American firm Coco Robotics to run four-wheeled pavement robots in five UK locations,…
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OpenAI is putting ads inside ChatGPT’s image generation
OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a…
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Huawei and Qualcomm sign patent deal covering 5G, AI and networking
Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, AI, computing and networking, and…
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Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in parks, schools and gyms
Norway’s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the…
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Schneider Electric to buy US software maker PTC for $22.6bn in cash
Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn…
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Sam Altman tells Politico the world “should accept some harm from AI”
OpenAI chief Sam Altman says the gains from AI are worth some harm. He also says the tech should stay open to the…
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Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump’s AI order
Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The…
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Exclusive: Danish legal research startup Pandektes raises €13.5M Series A
Building a company like this requires relentlessness, belief and dedication. Every start-up will have low points, but…
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Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets at night
Elon Musk said Tesla’s robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing…
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China wants solid-state batteries in use by 2030, and CATL rates them four out of nine
China’s industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state…
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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be “super dangerous”
Masayoshi Son, who has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and calls bubble talk absurd, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in…
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Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil…
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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building…
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AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian
Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks…
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US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI…
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