Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for…
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AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech
A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make…
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Volvo’s electric cars can now warn you about a deer around a blind corner
Volvo is adding alerts for large animals, vulnerable road users, roadworks and accidents ahead to its EX60, EX90 and…
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Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says
Investment firm Kimmeridge says as many as half of the data centres proposed in the United States are at risk of delay…
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IDC expects Apple to ship 10 million foldable iPhones in year one at $2,500
IDC predicts Apple’s first foldable iPhone will ship more than 10 million units in its first year at a price of $2,500,…
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Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale
Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale’s flagship West Virginia data…
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Flipboard acquires Graze, the tool for building your own social algorithm
Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build, tune and monetise custom social feeds…
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Hyundai has gained more US market share this decade than any carmaker
Hyundai Motor Group has grown its US market share faster than any major carmaker this decade and is investing $26B…
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PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points
An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points.…
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Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling
Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble…
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Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old
Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an…
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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a…
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Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters
X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an…
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Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads
Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is…
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Mate Security unveils Gamebooks to bring trusted autonomy to AI-powered security investigations
As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is…
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Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules
Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the…
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Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case
Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the…
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Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations
Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25…
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Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is
AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy,…
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Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production
Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more…
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Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks
Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three…
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87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China
Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a…
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The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu
Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts…
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EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows
Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own…
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A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together
Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European…
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Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs
Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every…
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Retail Trading’s Gap: 63% Confidence, 42% Knowledge
Retail investors who rely on social media answered only 42% of investment knowledge questions correctly. But 63% rated…
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Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern
Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the…
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The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness
American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its…
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Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3
Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms,…
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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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