Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets
Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without…
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MindRank’s oral GLP-1 is the furthest along any AI-native drug programme
MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase…
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SpaceX is spending $100bn on a second Starbase, on an old Exxon site in Louisiana
SpaceX will build a second Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on a former Exxon property on the Gulf Coast, and…
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Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens
Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even…
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The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional
The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources…
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Microsoft employees built their own pay spreadsheet, and it shows two companies
Around 600 Microsoft employees have entered their pay into a crowdsourced spreadsheet circulating internally, and the…
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Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection
Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from…
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Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it
Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software…
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AI won’t transform healthcare until we fix information overload
Healthcare does not need more information. It needs better ways to help clinicians identify what matters. The industry…
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Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company
Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years…
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Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain
Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable…
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Nvidia is about to report its fastest growth in seven quarters
Nvidia is expected to report quarterly revenue of $92.18bn, close to double the same period last year and its fastest…
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Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point
Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using…
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Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting
Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway…
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Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped
Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature…
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FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise
Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026, TechnologyWire FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing…
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Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil
Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market,…
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Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal
Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the…
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Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an…
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Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has…
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OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing
OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job…
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Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the…
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Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory, on by default
Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the…
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WhatsApp is replacing its six-digit security PIN with a real password
WhatsApp is replacing the six-digit PIN used for two-step verification with a full alphanumeric password, and says more…
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Apple gave Tim Cook a farewell party a week before Ternus takes over
Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people…
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Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship
One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that…
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Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would…
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SpaceX plans a $100B spaceport built for thousands of launches a year
SpaceX has announced plans to spend up to $100bn on a launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, intended to…
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Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power
A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand.…
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Stability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA
The world’s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner…
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AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches
After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing,…
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Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
Unitree’s shares have fallen roughly 45% from the peak they hit on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The slide…
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Apple unveils M6 and M5 Ultra chips with a big jump in AI performance
Apple has introduced the M6 in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, its first 2nm chip and its first…
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Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone
Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending…
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OpenAI’s Jalapeno chip outperformed the GB300 on power and speed, according to OpenAI
OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference chip, developed with Broadcom, outperformed Nvidia’s GB300 on AI work per unit of…
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Xiaomi unveils custom 3nm chip for intelligent driving
Xiaomi has unveiled the Xring D100, an in-house 3nm chip for intelligent driving that will replace Nvidia hardware in…
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