Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company…
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Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The…
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ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy
Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of…
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California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012
California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping…
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TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs
TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The…
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Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed
A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based…
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Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model,…
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Audi’s China-only EVs are coming to Europe, and they cost less than local models
A German company is importing Audi’s China-only E5 Sportback and E7X, models Audi never intended to sell in Europe, and…
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Xiaomi’s profit drops again as the memory crunch squeezes its phones
Xiaomi’s profit fell again in the second quarter. A global memory shortage kept pushing up the cost of its phones. The…
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Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects
Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph,…
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‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge
A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an…
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The Real AI Advantage Begins When Entrepreneurs Stop Limiting Their Own Potential
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become one of the defining business conversations of the decade. Yet despite…
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GM is building its own in-vehicle AI assistant because Google’s Gemini cannot access what the car knows
General Motors will launch its own in-vehicle AI assistant later this year, built to access vehicle data that Google’s…
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Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public
The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one…
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Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.
Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed…
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The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just…
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The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.
The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as…
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A $2 sticker defeats the one feature holding Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ together
Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn…
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Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%
Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors…
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AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads
A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT. A new report says that era is already over.…
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The EU clears the $55bn Saudi-led buyout of EA under its subsidy rules
The European Commission approved the PIF-led take-private of Electronic Arts under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation,…
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Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.
Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally…
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Space-Eyes, backed by Eric Trump, plans a $638m SPAC debut
Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million…
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Amazon jumps as AWS growth soothes fears over its AI spending
Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing…
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AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules
Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s…
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Indian police open a case against Meta’s India head over altered videos of Modi
Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime…
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A German court says AI music maker Suno broke copyright, a first for Europe
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in…
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Apple’s stock slides on supply snags despite record iPhone sales
Apple delivered its best-ever June quarter for iPhone sales and watched its shares fall anyway, as a warning about…
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Lloyds Bank bets on AI to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 as profits jump
Lloyds Banking Group is betting on artificial intelligence to strip £2bn from its costs by 2030, the clearest sign yet…
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CISA warns hackers are increasingly targeting US water systems after Minnesota attack
A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US…
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Tesla is reportedly weighing a China sell-off to clear the way for a SpaceX merger
Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with…
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Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban
Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took…
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Anthropic says its own Claude models breached three companies during cyber tests
Anthropic has disclosed that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three…
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Why the GTM playbook stopped working.
The old SaaS GTM playbook is getting expensive and invisible. Three startups stopped optimising it and started building…
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BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom
BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker…
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Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’
Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single…
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