France’s Goncourt prize drops a novel over claims AI wrote it
The Académie Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir from the first selection for France’s…
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Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data,…
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Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory
AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing…
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Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object
Netflix’s new reality competition, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice, and viewers…
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Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch
Attackers began exploiting a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the fix. The bug, CVE-2026-87902, can let an…
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Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year
Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google…
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Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies
On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference…
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AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says
An attacker used three open-source AI agent frameworks to break into at least 27 companies and steal more than 600,000…
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The…
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TakeMe2Space to launch AI computing satellite on SpaceX rocket on 1 October
TakeMe2Space, a space startup from India, will send its MOI-1A satellite to orbit on 1 October on a SpaceX rideshare…
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Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns in October with 600 investor
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul from 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The…
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OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13…
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US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents
A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay more than $5.7bn to Taction Technology, a small haptics company,…
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UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia
Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned…
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Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports
President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening.…
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China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips
China’s government has signalled it may let firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 5500 chip. The…
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From AI endpoints to IAM: 5 cybersecurity CEOs we’ve been watching this summer
Cybersecurity has had no shortage of new companies and ideas this summer. Behind some of the most interesting…
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GlobalFoundries reportedly sees strong demand for Chinese optical modules
US chipmaker GlobalFoundries says demand for Chinese optical modules is strong as more data centres are built, one of…
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Discord rolls out global age checks that sort most users automatically
Discord has started a global rollout of age checks that place users into age groups, with extra safety settings for…
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The inevitable problem with measuring B2B marketing by leads
B2B companies today can track almost every movement a prospect makes, yet the numbers that appear most prominently on…
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EU’s AI envoy tells commissioners to focus on using AI, Politico reports
The EU’s special envoy for industrial AI has told the EU’s top officials to focus on using AI to lift Europe’s slow…
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Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports
A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The…
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Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify
The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The…
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Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports
Google’s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more…
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Why markdown is becoming the default language between search data and AI models
Across the infrastructure layer that powers AI applications, Markdown has been emerging as a new standard. More…
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Oxford let OpenAI train AI models on Bodleian texts, the Guardian reports
Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen…
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Deel loses bid to bar key witness in Rippling spy case, Bloomberg reports
US federal judge on Friday rejected Deel’s bid to block testimony from a key witness in Rippling’s corporate espionage…
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From tunnel to connectivity layer: What GnuVPN says about where VPNs are heading
For years, consumer VPNs were easy to explain: choose a server, create an encrypted tunnel, and route your traffic…
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TikTok to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle teen safety lawsuit
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle the state’s lawsuit over the app’s effect on children,…
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OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox.…
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McDonald’s tests Archy, an AI drive-thru voice for English and Spanish
McDonald’s is testing an AI voice assistant called Archy that takes drive-thru orders in English and Spanish. The…
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Hollywood studios want film graduates who already use AI, Semafor reports
Hollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know how to use AI video tools, rather than…
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Xi ends Washington visit with trade truce extended to January
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade…
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Tesla’s Semi finally enters production, nine years after it was shown
Tesla has begun volume production of the Semi at Gigafactory Nevada with first deliveries this week, nine years after…
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Infrastructure complexity is reshaping how smaller technology firms operate
As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital systems, the boundaries between…
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Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough
Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that…
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