Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban
Anthony Albanese met Tim Cook at Apple Park on Saturday and said Apple had recognized Australia’s leadership on online…
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Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October
Firmus will open the institutional bookbuild for its Australian listing on 6 October and begin trading on the ASX on 22…
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Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night
Facebook and Instagram stopped working for users across the United States on Sunday evening, with the outage tracker…
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China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip
China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can…
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Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.
Insta360 opened its first American store on Saturday at 1515 Broadway, in the middle of Times Square. It is the…
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Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted…
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Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.
President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to…
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US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor…
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Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.
John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already…
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Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended…
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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI,…
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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath…
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Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be…
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OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.
The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July…
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Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 was released on 18 September, priced at $0.10 per hour of audio for batch work and $0.20 per…
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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to…
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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.
Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity…
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Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.
Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world by 2030, and that the industry should go as fast as…
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TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app…
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Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24…
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Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and…
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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the…
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Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have…
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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief…
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Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex
“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge…
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Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage
A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the…
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Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening…
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Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech
“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera…
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Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material,…
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Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos
“In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq,” Nik Storonsky told…
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Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe
An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its…
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Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause
Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labor’s former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice…
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All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day
The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18…
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Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle…
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Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than…
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Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035
“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast.…
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