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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Lucid recalls 27,185 Air sedans over a software fuse that did not cut the power
Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans because the software eFuse protecting their exterior lighting circuits can allow…
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Lambda inks $1B private debt for Nvidia chip deal
Lambda has raised about $1B of private short-dated debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs that Microsoft will…
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Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED
Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera stops when someone covers the recording light, the second such fix in…
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BMW has sold two million electric cars, and Europe bought seven in ten of the ones it shifted last quarter
BMW has delivered its two millionth fully electric vehicle, an i5 M60 xDrive built at Dingolfing and handed to a…
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France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue
Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through…
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a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced…
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Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand
If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a…
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SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake
SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of…
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Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July
Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it…
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Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away
Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn,…
Read at source →OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth,…
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Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1%…
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