Factory and Cognition bosses clash over adviser’s exit, Bloomberg reports
The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Carmen Arroyo…
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Samsung lifts prices across most of the Galaxy S26 range by $100
Samsung has added $100 to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and Ultra and $200 to the 1TB Ultra, seven months after the phones went…
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Grindr to buy HIV prevention telehealth firm Freddie for $250mn
Grindr has agreed to buy PurposeMed, the company behind HIV prevention service Freddie, for $250mn in cash and stock,…
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Coliving startup PadSplit expands to San Francisco, New York and Chicago
PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, the New York metro…
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TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for more AI chips
TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a…
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An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI
The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is…
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Walmart shelf labels will light up to guide shoppers, CNBC reports
Walmart is turning its digital shelf labels into a way to find things. Shoppers can now make the label under a product…
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LinkedIn’s former chief Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft
Ryan Roslansky, who ran LinkedIn before taking over Microsoft’s Office group, will leave the company at the end of…
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Ford’s CEO says it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers
Ford chief executive Jim Farley said it is too late for Europe to fend off Chinese carmakers and that the United States…
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FedEx is buying 2,000 electric trucks for $300M, and investing in the company building them
FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks worth $300M from Harbinger, a Californian startup it also backed with…
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Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic
President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in…
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ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news
Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies.…
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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday,…
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Kanu AI raises $11.7m to turn how staff work into software they own
Kanu AI has come out of stealth with $11.7m in funding. The Seattle startup builds software that runs inside a…
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Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails
Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure…
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Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by…
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‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem
Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that…
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Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data
Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator’s Instagram…
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Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The…
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Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab
Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides…
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MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies
MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says…
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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company…
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OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI…
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McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports
McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for…
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Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks
AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew…
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OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a…
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Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports
A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of…
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Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports
Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on…
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DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA
DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang,…
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AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority
Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI…
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Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits
GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well…
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Use.ai puts 10+ AI models in one app and reaches 1 million monthly users
Every new AI model creates another reason to switch. For users who have already built up months or years of…
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Maximor rebrands as Hyphenate after 86x revenue growth
Maximor, the autonomous finance company, has rebranded as Hyphenate. The new name reflects the company’s expansion…
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Trump tells Axios that Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar
President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios…
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OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn
OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and…
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US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from China
US Congressman Ro Khanna has asked five leading American AI companies to share what they know about attempts by China…
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