Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs
Ford will use Apple Maps as the built-in navigation system for its next generation of electric vehicles, replacing the…
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Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled
Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale…
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AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they…
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Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency…
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Jeff Bezos has been approached to buy a stake in Liverpool FC. Amazon already holds the Premier League TV rights.
Jeff Bezos has been approached to join a consortium seeking to buy a 30% stake in Liverpool Football Club from Fenway…
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Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion…
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AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic…
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Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one
For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent…
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Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.
Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that…
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Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months
Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference,…
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Drone makers race to build navigation that survives warzone jamming
GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from…
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Apple’s privacy policy reveals an AI shopping assistant is coming to the Apple Store app
Apple is preparing to add an AI-powered shopping assistant to the Apple Store app, according to a privacy policy update…
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Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it
The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have…
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Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.
Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from…
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OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind
Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor…
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Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes
The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts…
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Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.
Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of…
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Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators
AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the…
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Google’s Gemini delay exposes a deeper problem: employee morale
Google is losing a race it once led, and the problem may be its own people. Six current and former DeepMind employees…
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Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers
The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief…
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Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits
The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval…
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Ford and Geely will build EVs together at Ford’s plant in Spain. Ford owns 66%, Geely 34%.
Ford and Geely announced a manufacturing joint venture on Thursday that will produce electric vehicles at Ford’s plant…
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Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it
Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly…
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Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers
Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on…
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Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen
Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an…
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OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match
Building a data centre used to be a quiet affair. Not any more. OpenAI’s plan for a giant new site in Georgia arrives…
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A retina chip that restores sight is going on sale in Europe
Geographic atrophy is the worst form of age-related macular degeneration. For most people who have it, the centre of…
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China’s Psibot hits a $1.48bn valuation betting on ‘world models’
Viktor Wang has a favourite piece of history. In 2019, OpenAI’s GPT-2 showed that a machine trained on nothing but…
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AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest…
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Tesla sold 25% more cars and made 57% less operating profit. The AI spending is the reason.
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, its highest-ever quarterly total, and generated record revenue…
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Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing…
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Google now lets you sign in to your account with a selfie video
Everyone has lost access to something. A phone, a password, a recovery code sent to a dead email. Google’s answer,…
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A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon
The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate…
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Uber cuts 10% of customer-service jobs and, for the first time, blames AI
Uber has trimmed its customer-service ranks and pointed at AI. The company cut 10% of jobs in its community operations…
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China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%
The gap between American and Chinese AI is closing fast. Chinese models narrowed the performance shortfall to a…
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Google reveals it holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares after the IPO
Google spent years as a low-key backer of SpaceX. This week it showed what that patience is worth. In a quarterly…
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