EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas…
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Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt
Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at €575M, well past the €500M it set out to…
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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put…
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An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions…
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Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported…
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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next…
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Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those…
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Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it
Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the…
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Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the…
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Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was…
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Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company…
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The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure…
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Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares
Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart…
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Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data
Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put…
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The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips
When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall…
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Thailand halted more data centres than it has running
Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen…
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EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway
Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI…
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Nigeria’s regulator asks Uber about the services it did not deliver before leaving
Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is investigating Uber’s abrupt exit, particularly…
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Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released…
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The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days,…
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Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces
Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint…
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Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski
Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost…
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OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software,…
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Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to…
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday…
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Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a…
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Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards,…
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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure,…
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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment,…
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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that…
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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief…
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TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an…
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More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says
A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more…
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Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad
Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the…
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Japan says progress made on $550B pact, with AI and chips weighing heavily on the next round
Japan’s trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight in the third…
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Nvidia partner Hon Hai’s sales climb 52% as Europe lines up its own orders
Hon Hai reported August revenue of NT$921.8B, about $29.1B, up 52% year on year on AI server demand, well ahead of…
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