Lawmaker demands federal action after 43 Tesla drivers were filmed asleep at the wheel
A US congressman has asked federal regulators what they intend to do about Tesla drivers who sleep while Full…
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Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as…
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China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go
China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total…
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Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software
Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in…
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OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems
OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems.…
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ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework
Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework,…
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AI agents are learning to spend money. Who will handle the payments?
AI is already changing how people find and buy things online, comparing prices, narrowing down options, doing in…
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The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres
The United Arab Emirates plans to invest €40bn ($46.4bn) in Germany, including in new data centres with a combined…
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A Texas judge has found TikTok liable for misleading parents about child safety
A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok broke state law by telling parents its app was safe for their children…
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Tencent-backed chipmaker Enflame nearly triples in its Shanghai debut
Shares in Shanghai Enflame Technology closed 179% above their offer price on their first day of trading on Shanghai’s…
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Chinese robot startup JoyIn says OpenAI copied its ideas and its website
JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo…
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Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in a pilot with OpenAI
Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the…
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Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told…
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Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on…
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The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target
The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf,…
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Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss
Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy…
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Oracle is spending more on building data centres than it earns in a quarter
Oracle told investors this week that it is sitting on $664bn of work it has agreed to do and has not yet done.…
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Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
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Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9…
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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10…
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HelmGuard raises $7.3m to replace compliance paperwork with AI agents
London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies manage security and…
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Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
The first International Space Summit closed at the Grand Palais in Paris on Thursday with about €20bn in announced…
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Amazon adds Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board
“If there is a way in, the modern AI threat will find it,” Kevin Mandia wrote in March, in the blog post that launched…
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AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week…
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Seed Capital closes a €130M fifth fund and expands from Denmark into the Nordics
Seed Capital has closed its fifth fund at €130mn and will use it to invest outside Denmark for the first time, backing…
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Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence
Sam Altman has been pitching American electric utilities on using OpenAI’s models to defend the power grid against…
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Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini
Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook
OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data built into the…
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California has banned personalised feeds for under-16s, going further than Australia or the DSA
California has banned personalised recommendation feeds and autoplay for users under 16, in a package of 13 bills…
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AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival…
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Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons
Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for…
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Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandboxes for AI agents
AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes,…
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TAR raises $120m at a $1bn valuation to build off-grid power for AI
TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin company builds off-grid…
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Motive pulls its IPO filing after raising $1.3bn from General Catalyst
Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company…
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Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars
WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public…
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Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI…
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