The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it
In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A…
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Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car
London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve…
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The first thing Apple’s new CEO did was rename a Canadian lake
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a…
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ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it
ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner…
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UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media
Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries,…
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CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout
CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word…
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A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions
Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court…
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A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking
Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in.…
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JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used
JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3…
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OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the…
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Microsoft Fabric reaches the US government cloud, with general availability from October
Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general…
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CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains
CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting…
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A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work
A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from…
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Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release…
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New York bans AI in primary school, three months after Norway did
New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing…
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Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure, and narrows what Azure means
Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the…
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What happens to trust when attention becomes more valuable than the truth?
We have built an internet space where attention can be more valuable than truth. That decision is beginning to cost us…
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Tesla’s driver assist faces new pressure after two fatal crashes where the cars stopped dead
Electrek has matched two fatal US freeway crashes to redacted Tesla reports showing a driver assistance system verified…
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The AI skills gap is growing while schools wait for perfect answers
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future challenge for education. It is already changing how people write,…
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Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI’s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher…
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NASA turns to a stripped-down Sortie Suit for the first Artemis landings
NASA has told Axiom Space to develop a simpler Sortie Suit for the first lunar landings, cutting mass and complexity to…
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Adobe for Slack turns chat threads into Firefly images, video and PDFs
Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly,…
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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber…
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World open-sources ProveKit to bring private ID checks to everyday smartphones
The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing…
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Uber cuts 10% of its workforce and shuts down in Nigeria and Uganda
Uber is cutting about 3,300 roles, roughly 10% of its workforce, and shutting down in Nigeria and Uganda as it…
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Coder launches Agent Relay with SpaceXAI, running Cursor’s cloud agents on customer infrastructure
Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor’s cloud agents run inside a…
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Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts
Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts,…
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Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce
Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating,…
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China exported 8.32 million vehicles last year. Now it wants them sold at stable prices
China’s commerce and industry ministries and its market regulator have issued joint guidelines telling automakers to…
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ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer
ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue…
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Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls
Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more…
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Walnut Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform to Personalize the B2B Buyer Experience
For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore…
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Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Build a New Security Layer for the Network Edge
The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure,…
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AEREDIUM launches AERSeal to end single-key control of smart contracts
AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a security product for smart contracts. It exists to stop a single compromised private…
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Opera loses EU court fight to have Microsoft Edge labelled a gatekeeper
Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday…
Read at source →CrowdStrike and the FBI are dismantling Sality after 23 years
Sality has been infecting computers since 2003, making it older than the iPhone, Facebook, and much of the security…
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