Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning
Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s…
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Australia set to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube, Bloomberg reports
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s.…
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FTC clears Publicis’ $2.2bn LiveRamp deal if rivals keep equal access
The US Federal Trade Commission will let Publicis Groupe buy LiveRamp for $2.2bn, but only if the data company keeps…
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Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs
Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several…
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Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories
Arda Industries, founded by OpenAI’s former research chief Bob McGrew, has come out of stealth with $232 million in…
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ASI hits a $3bn valuation as its AI moves from air traffic to the grid
ASI has raised $325 million in a Series C round that values it at $3 billion, the Boston AI company announced on…
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Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief
Robert Downey Jr. has joined SPECS, Snap’s augmented reality glasses business, as its honorary chief customer…
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Reliable Robotics tops a $1bn valuation with $115M for self-flying planes
Reliable Robotics has raised $115 million, taking its valuation past $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. The…
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Sierra and Stripe let AI agents take card payments during calls
Sierra, the AI customer service startup led by Bret Taylor, has partnered with Stripe so its agents can take card…
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Meta’s policy chief Joel Kaplan will leave the company in 2027
Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, will leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years, Bloomberg…
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Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst for enterprise growth
Otter.ai has raised $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The AI meeting…
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Waymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet fivefold to 20,000 by 2027
Waymo plans to grow its fleet from about 4,000 robotaxis today to 8,000 by the end of 2026 and 20,000 by the end of…
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Homebase’s new AI assistant fills shifts for small business owners
Homebase, which makes scheduling and payroll software for hourly teams, has launched Homebase Assistant. The AI tool…
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Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web
“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a…
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Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do
New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free…
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Spotify pulls 50M AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this…
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Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster
Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a…
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Amazon will hire 300,000 for the holidays as other retailers hold back
Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 US workers for the holiday season, up 20% from last year, with seasonal staff…
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MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware
In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it…
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OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of…
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Terra Security’s AI Native Cybersecurity podcast opens with Amazon’s CISO
A cyberattack that once might have taken weeks or months to unfold can now go from initial access to a complete system…
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Anthropic to rewrite part of its leaked AI bill after safety backlash
Anthropic has told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of its own draft AI safety bill. The leaked text drew days of…
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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab…
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US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents
Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in…
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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined…
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Salesforce agrees $5.7bn deal for customer messaging firm Braze
Salesforce has agreed to buy Braze, a New York company that helps brands send personalised messages to their customers,…
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Jooba emerges with $4M to build AI-native recruiting firm
The startup combines human recruiters with custom AI sourcing agents, betting that fast-growing companies want help…
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Postquant Labs launches a virtual machine for different quantum computers
Quantum computers don’t all work the same way, and that creates a problem for developers. Code written for one machine…
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Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo
Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three…
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Vectorial raises $3M to help companies launch successful products
AI is making building and launching products exponentially faster, but current user research is still painfully slow,…
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Qualcomm reportedly plans global job cuts after annual staff reviews
Qualcomm plans to cut jobs around the world after its yearly staff reviews, with affected employees due to be told from…
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Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud
Microsoft is adding new controls to its sovereign cloud for governments and regulated companies, the CEO Satya Nadella…
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AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms…
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Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down
Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company’s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms…
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Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI,…
Read at source →Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks over second $45bn deal
Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic about $45bn more in AI computing capacity, two months after the two companies…
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