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Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund
Anthropic plans to place 5% of its shares in a new entity called the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. The AI company…
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Is that really your banker? World brings human verification to Zoom calls
As deepfakes grow convincing enough to pass for real people on live video, World is pitching banks a new line of…
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Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO
Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes…
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Woodside pauses Scarborough gas work after Greenpeace boards platform
Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters…
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World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports
The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak…
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Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds
Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs…
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Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case
The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with…
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Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third…
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Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs
Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio…
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Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports…
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Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports
Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines,…
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Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM…
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Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join
More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The…
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Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on…
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Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini
Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon,…
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Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business…
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Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its…
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Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on…
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Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says
Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper…
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Musk tells Isaacson only AI and robots can fix US debt, Axios reports
Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and…
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TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the…
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FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about…
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Netflix names ex-Disney TV boss Peter Rice content chief as Bajaria leaves
Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company…
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EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says
The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten…
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OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports
OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures…
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Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons
Berkshire Hathaway is buying 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33 each. The Milan-based company announced the…
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Anduril opens a $1.3bn employee tender at a $90bn valuation
Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at…
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Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate…
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Ukraine’s drones still lose Starshield above 161 km/h, Zelenskyy says
“We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October,…
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Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2
“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of…
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Japan puts up to $21bn into two GlobalFoundries chip fabs in New York
“Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to…
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XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2…
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EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security,…
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Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than…
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OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports
“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies…
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