Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was…
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Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent
A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping…
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Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine
Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are…
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ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture
ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the…
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models
Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn…
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YouTube Premium will include Peacock at no extra cost from early 2027. It is Peacock’s largest distribution deal.
Peacock Premium will be included with YouTube Premium in the US at no extra cost starting in early 2027. The deal,…
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Meta AI arrives in Threads DMs for all users worldwide
Meta is rolling out Meta AI to Threads direct messages globally starting today. All users can now share posts, images,…
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Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported…
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AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.
The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token…
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Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand
Orange and Morrison announced an exclusivity agreement on Monday to create a jointly controlled data centre company in…
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Angola just raised $321m selling shares in a telco it seized from Africa’s richest woman
Angola raised roughly $321 million on Monday by selling a 15% stake in Unitel, the country’s dominant mobile operator,…
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Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to €500. The AI memory crisis has reached photography.
Fujifilm is raising list prices on at least five camera models from September 1, blaming the global DRAM crisis for…
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The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled…
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Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.
Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI…
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Amazon asked the FCC to approve 5,105 satellites for a network that sends internet straight to your phone
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve the launch of up to 5,105 internet satellites for a direct-to-device network that…
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Young adults are using ChatGPT to script their in-person conversations. Psychologists call it an “epidemic of self-mistrust.”
A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts but their in-person…
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Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he…
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Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case
Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over…
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ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools
ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based company…
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Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe…
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Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines
Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by…
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Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them…
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Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals
Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound…
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As SAP’s 2027 support cutoff nears, Pranay Raj Kanakala shows what compliance-ready SAP migration actually looks like
A telecom RF engineer turned SAP consultant, he automates the accounting logic that decides when companies can book…
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Porsche is cutting another 5,000 jobs. Total layoffs now approach 9,400.
Porsche will cut another 5,000 jobs by 2035 under a second restructuring package agreed between management and labour…
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No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.
Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting…
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This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom
Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares…
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OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere
OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the…
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A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its…
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Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers
The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord…
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A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years
A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup…
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Waymo keeps parking in tow-away zones in Austin. It has been fined 64 times.
Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived in 2024,…
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CXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers
Zhu Yiming got about $10bn richer on Monday. He has promised to give roughly $5.6bn of it away, and not to charity. The…
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Volkswagen wants tariff protection after Chinese brands grab 28% of Europe’s PHEV market
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose higher tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids after the…
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Nuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels
Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup…
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Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield
The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report:…
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