Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year
Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a…
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Microsoft patches a record 974 flaws, and two are already under attack
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the company’s release…
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Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the context they lack
Euno has raised a $23m Series A led by N47. The startup builds what it calls a context platform for enterprise AI…
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Snap launches a planning tool for organising meet-ups with friends
Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to 200 people, built…
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ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation…
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Top Pentagon official dismisses viral AI warning from an Anthropic researcher
The Pentagon’s chief technology officer publicly dismissed a former Anthropic researcher’s viral warning about AI risk…
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Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports
Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company formerly known as…
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Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than double its 2025 price
Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington…
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Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden…
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Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports
Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the…
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Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with…
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DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding…
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More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study finds
The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year,…
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Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable
“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated…
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Electric cars are 33% cheaper to run in Europe. Petrol fuel costs rose up to 36% in one shock
The ICCT finds battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, or 28% on public…
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Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’
“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so…
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Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware
Antioch, a New York startup that builds simulation software for robots, drones and other autonomous machines, has…
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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit
Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his…
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Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports
Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly…
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UK will legislate to make Apple and Google block nude images for children
The UK government will legislate to force Apple and Google to block nude images on children’s phones and tablets. The…
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US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google
The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is…
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Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres
Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than…
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UK space strategy puts £7.8bn behind defence, satellites and ESA to 2030
The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by £7.8bn to 2030. It brings the government’s civil and…
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Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls
Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls.…
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IBM and NASA release an open-source lunar foundation model
IBM and NASA are releasing an AI model trained on decades of observations of the Moon, and making it available openly.…
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The data storage crisis has a biological fix. It starts by making less DNA, not more.
The math behind the data storage problem is brutal. The world creates more information every year than it can afford to…
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Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Nvidia and Palantir have announced today a joint product for running AI over corporate supply chains without handing…
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A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth
A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and…
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A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test…
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The Boring Company raises $3bn at a $23bn valuation, led by the UAE
Elon Musk’s tunnelling company has raised $3bn at a valuation of $23bn, led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated…
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EU cybersecurity agency is now testing Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, the Commission says
ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it…
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Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.
Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the…
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Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet
Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to…
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Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself
Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is…
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Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027
Nvidia has signed eight Australian data centre and cloud companies to build what it calls AI factory capacity, in an…
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China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the joint US intelligence advisory accusing Chinese developers of extracting…
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