ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service…
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Apple’s Phil Schiller hands over App Store and Events to Eddy Cue
Phil Schiller has stepped down from running Apple’s App Store and its product events, Bloomberg reported, keeping his…
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The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?
The Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use…
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LG Energy Solution signs a 10-year Arkansas lithium deal starting 2029
LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium…
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Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and…
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Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law
Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New…
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EU employment law 2026 moved the burden of proof to you
If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three…
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Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees
Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was…
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Google will limit how much memory Android apps can use from February 2027
Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From…
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Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI
Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then…
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ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA
The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the…
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Honda and Nissan will share the software in their cars from 2029
Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the…
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Singapore is putting S$220M into fintech as private funding hits a decade low
Singapore has committed S$220M, about $173M, to its fintech sector over the next three years. It made the announcement…
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Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company
Pinterest’s chief financial officer is leaving for a private, early-stage company, and investors reacted quickly. Julia…
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Europe has ordered a €388M AI supercomputer from its own state-owned champion
Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8…
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OpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI works
OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin…
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AI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS records
A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple…
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Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models
Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the…
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The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later
The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across…
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SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease
SB Energy has handed OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5bn, and it did so to keep OpenAI as a tenant. The Wall Street…
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AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says
The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to…
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MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets
An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate…
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Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users
Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US…
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UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators
VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not…
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How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it
Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to…
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from…
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Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026,…
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Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list
CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese…
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BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five months and wants to double it again by December
BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five months, with each…
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OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off…
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A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell them to fix quality, not add features
Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical…
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This graphite-free battery could break China’s grip on the EV supply chain
Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no…
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The data center boom will fail its promise if safety and workforce development continue to lag behind
The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the people building it…
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Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act
A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level…
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Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is selling his $7.9M private island in Tanzania
Tim Draper is selling his island in Lake Tanganyika for $7.9M or best offer, announcing it himself on X and inviting…
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I’m 19, and I’ve watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers
I’m 19, and I’ve had an odd seat for the last couple of years of the creator economy. My company runs a marketplace…
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