The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure…
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Oura’s $924m loss is the price of buying back its own shares
Oura filed to go public on Nasdaq on 3 September, and the coverage split within hours. Reuters reported that the smart…
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Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data
Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put…
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The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips
When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall…
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Thailand halted more data centres than it has running
Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen…
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EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway
Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI…
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Nigeria’s regulator asks Uber about the services it did not deliver before leaving
Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is investigating Uber’s abrupt exit, particularly…
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Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released…
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The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days,…
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Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces
Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint…
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Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski
Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost…
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OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software,…
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Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to…
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday…
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Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a…
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Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards,…
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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure,…
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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment,…
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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that…
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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief…
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TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an…
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More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says
A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more…
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Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad
Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the…
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Japan says progress made on $550B pact, with AI and chips weighing heavily on the next round
Japan’s trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight in the third…
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Nvidia partner Hon Hai’s sales climb 52% as Europe lines up its own orders
Hon Hai reported August revenue of NT$921.8B, about $29.1B, up 52% year on year on AI server demand, well ahead of…
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Chinese profits rose 25.7%. The CSI 300 fell 9% and the Star 50 fell 29%
Profits at onshore-listed Chinese companies rose 25.7% in the three months to June, the fastest in nearly five years…
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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already…
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AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed…
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AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point…
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Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI’s most capable model
Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced…
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Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla certified itself, and now has a federal investigation.
Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how…
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The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing…
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Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and leaves the rest to kids
Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to…
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Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald…
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Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive…
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Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European…
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