Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic
Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew…
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Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion
More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence…
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SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips
SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose…
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UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports
The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is…
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Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports
Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information…
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A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer
A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse agent gave his home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and then told the buyer he was…
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Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models…
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against…
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Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback
Nvidia’s board has approved an extra $150bn for share buybacks, the company said on Monday. That lifts the total…
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Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses
Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief…
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Instinct raised $1B at $10B for an AI agent that rings restaurants on its own phone
Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue for a personal AI agent that books…
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Red Queen Bio is using AI to design antibodies for future viruses, WSJ says
Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against…
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Volkswagen’s Canadian battery plant slips to 2029, while its German one is already running
Volkswagen’s battery subsidiary PowerCo has delayed its Ontario plant by two years to 2029, and the ID Buzz will skip…
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Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian…
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Nio sells a 30% stake in its battery swapping arm to Geely
Nio has agreed to sell a 30% stake in its battery swapping business, Nio Power, to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the…
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China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports
China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad,…
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Z.ai and Concordia AI propose six stages for managing open-weight AI risk
Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks…
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Chery built the first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, and measures its electric range on NEDC
Chery has built the world’s first diesel plug-in hybrid pickup, the Stockman, developed for Australia rather than…
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Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days
Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to…
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Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control
Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman says the industry should reject any AI it cannot prove it controls. He…
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Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him
Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on…
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Hyundai says solid-state cars are five years away, and still too expensive after that
Hyundai research chief Manfred Harrer says carmakers cannot give up on solid-state batteries and expects small-volume…
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Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night,…
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HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent
The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into…
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SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday, on its 14th test flight. The rocket lifted off from…
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Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant
Walmart will not use a shopper’s income, shopping history or urgency to charge them more, chief executive John Furner…
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OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models…
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US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel
The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House…
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Modulate raises $25M to sell AI that listens to voice calls, not just transcripts
Modulate, a Boston company that builds AI models to analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts,…
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OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online
OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on…
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YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary
YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter…
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The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites
The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space…
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Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn
Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazil’s Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital…
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Raspberry Pi’s revenue jumps 90% as its memory stockpile pays off
Raspberry Pi nearly doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026, helped by memory chips it stockpiled before prices…
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More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds
China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by…
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Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information reports
Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid…
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