Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […]
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The Industrial Accelerator Act arrived on 4 March 2026 as COM(2026)100, alongside an impact assessment and three staff working documents, per the European Commission. Its formal title says what it is for. It establishes a framework for accelerating industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. It is a proposal, not a law. It is now […]
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The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’re not talking about AI correctly,” he said. The second part is the product. “We need to actually be developing more products […]
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The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]
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Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]
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The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg’s messages and Coller declined to […]
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Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta went first, and it went alone. On Wednesday it published its enforcement figures on its own newsroom, covering 1 December 2025 to 30 June 2026. No other platform has released […]
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Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet […]
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A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It is among the most disturbing in a growing line of cases in which an […]
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The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being sent aloft to plug the gap, quietly becoming sensors that […]
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Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad year to go public. Databricks has closed $5bn at […]
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Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming. Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, and still will not say when its flagship model is coming. […]
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Volvo is launching Safety Coach, an optional app that scores braking, acceleration and cornering, with high scorers offered cheaper usage-based insurance through Volvia. It starts in Sweden and Norway this month, with the United States and other European markets to follow. Volvo is launching an app that scores how you drive and hands the result […]
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Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is […]
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Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in. Twitch has added a setting that stops Amazon training […]
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OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in […]
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Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres […]
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The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June. Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior […]
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Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new peak, so $1.98 and $0.66. Now hold those discount rates against last week’s […]
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The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact, validating releases, and responding to unexpected behavior still require context from production. Hud says AI now generates or assists with 42% of the code developers ship, and that share is […]
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Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word “Instagram” as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on your home screen is untouched. The change itself is small. The new type carries cursive curves on the letters […]
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Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A memo drafted inside the US Defense Department on 4 August did something different. It named the supplier first. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg directed […]
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Renting an Nvidia H100 for an hour costs whatever your supplier says it costs. There is no published price. Two companies buying identical capacity can pay very different rates, and neither of them will know. That changes on 5 October. CME Group, the exchange that lists crude oil and corn, will start trading two futures […]
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Navi, the Indian fintech founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has hired banks for an initial public offering of about $315m, according to a Bloomberg report. It is the clearest sign yet that Bansal’s second act is finally heading for the public markets, four years after his first attempt quietly stalled. The headline number comes […]
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Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere respectable, trust the algorithm; the genre rarely rewards close reading. INPUT Global, a communications agency […]
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Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe’s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business only months ago, a pace that says as much about the frenzy around […]
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Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that it will open its own premium airport lounges across Europe, with the first due to debut in 2027 at Copenhagen Airport, […]
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Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been told to identify the employees affected, and the goal is to trim payroll before 1 September, the start of the company’s fiscal second quarter. Oracle declined to comment. It is the […]
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In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game slid to 16th in the monthly gacha rankings, having never before dropped out of the top five. Put that against its own history and […]
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In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of “personal superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence built for everyone rather than a centralised system that automates people out of a job. The slope was expansive, occasionally utopian, and it landed less as a settled manifesto […]
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The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers […]
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The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single failed release can erase enormous amounts of investment. The industry’s latest workforce data makes the pressure difficult to ignore. 28% of respondents to the 2026 […]
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All four Pixel 11 models run Google’s Tensor G6 alongside a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards, a first for a Google phone. The chip claims 25% faster browsing and 20% better power efficiency, with a TPU carrying 50% more compute. Every Pixel 11 ships with Google’s new Tensor G6, […]
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Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for research. An interior design creator with 2.4 million YouTube subscribers has apologised for […]
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Code in the latest Uber iOS app refers to adding a tween aged 10 to 12 to an Uber Family profile, with a trusted adult contact and the option to require a grown-up at pickup. Uber says it is not a live product and that its only teen offering remains 13 to 17. Uber is […]
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Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arrives as AI Overviews cut click-through rates on top-ranking pages by 58%. A German marketing software company has bought […]
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Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google’s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh confirmed the memory shortage will push Pixel prices up. Google […]
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Trust in social media is slowly eroding, even as global engagement continues to rise. Platforms have become deeply embedded in everyday life, yet the quality of interaction they facilitate is under increasing scrutiny. For Booker Loud, founder and CEO of Pin-Social, this contradiction reflects a fundamental design challenge that has shaped the industry for more […]
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Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement […]
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Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallup’s workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve […]
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Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. […]
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Jaguar has published the first interior images of the Type 01, the electric grand tourer that will end a two-year gap in which it stopped selling new cars in the UK. The car is revealed in New York on October 6, after a delay from late 2025 and an expected price of around £100,000. Jaguar […]
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Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers. The stock dropped as much as 21% in after-hours trading on Monday and closed on Tuesday down about 15% at $8.39. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $191.7m, down […]
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SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX will train Grok on its own information, including the […]
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South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wednesday at a meeting of scientists, executives and investors at the presidential office. The programmes, branded the “Seven Major SEED”, cover small modular reactors, nuclear fusion, next-generation renewable […]
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Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are […]
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Uber Freight is investigating a data-security incident involving unauthorised access to part of its systems, the company said on Tuesday, five days after a hacking group claimed to have posted around a million of its files online. In a statement attributed to spokesperson Sam Hallock, the company said there had been “no impact to Uber […]
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Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of […]
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The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly […]
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Foxconn crossed a line this quarter that it will not cross back. Its cloud and networking division, the one that builds AI servers, made up 51% of revenue in the three months to June. That is the first time the segment has passed half. Smart consumer electronics, the division that contains the iPhone, came to […]
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Lovable has raised $400m at a $13.3bn valuation. The Stockholm company lets people build software by describing it in ordinary language, and it is now one of Europe’s most valuable startups. Eight months ago it raised $300m at $6.6bn. The valuation has more than doubled since December, and the round was first reported by the […]
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The resignation landed on a Tuesday, and the manager never saw it coming. A senior engineer with three years at the company had earned strong reviews and showed no obvious signs of frustration. Then came the resignation. A competing offer had already been signed. Looking back, the warning signs were easy to spot. Survey scores […]
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Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack class does not scale like that because more people are running it. It scales because […]
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SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an enterprise waitlist. SpaceXAI has released Grok Bot, software that hands work to groups of […]
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Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in […]
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Jennifer Bailey, head of Apple Pay and Wallet since the service launched in 2014, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at Apple. Her exit is one of several senior departures ahead of Tim Cook handing the chief executive job to John Ternus on September 1. Jennifer Bailey, who has run Apple Pay […]
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Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the share of organisations with a chief AI officer at 76% this year, up from 26% in 2025. Target has appointed its first chief AI officer. Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe’s on August 24 as senior […]
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A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building […]
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Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started […]
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Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish […]
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Italian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than risk it in an aircraft hold, and readied it for one of the more nerve-racking experiments in physics: a test that has to succeed on the first attempt, during the total solar eclipse that sweeps over […]
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Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The company has spent recent months lending its own balance sheet to customers so they could […]
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Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huberman Lab, in an episode released on Monday. […]
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Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working […]
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In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisations and planted persistent threats. Then the same models were asked to defend and find what they had planted. The attackers succeeded in 88% of simulations. […]
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The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. […]
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Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Perplexity’s Comet browser. Three buttons sit under […]
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Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon. The investor roster now includes Nvidia, […]
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Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated “certain corporate information”, the filing […]
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CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo Alto added 17.84 points, or 4.90%, and traded […]
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Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods section in Google Play settings and use their Venmo wallet, connected bank accounts, or cards to pay for apps, games, subscriptions, and even tip creators inside supported apps. The addition joins PayPal, Cash App, and major […]
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OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg’s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company’s own job posting places the […]
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Shein’s advisers are pitching the fast-fashion giant to investors at a valuation below $30 billion for its Hong Kong IPO, a roughly 70% drop from the $100 billion-plus valuation it hit in a 2022 private fundraising. Internally, Shein set a target of $30 billion. If it IPOs lower, the company may have to consult existing […]
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Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and David Allen, the US chargé d’affaires in Armenia. That guest list is the story. A US company opened a facility in a […]
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Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under 16 from social media, calling addiction “the biggest problem facing education.” At a panel discussion this week, Lilian Chan Lui Ling-yee, honorary president of the Yan Oi Association of Principals, said legislation was needed to protect the next generation. A survey […]
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Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like […]
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Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six-inch metrology system paired with CMP equipment. The integration is the substantive part. Rather than measuring wafers separately after processing, the system […]
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X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change is designed to reward creators who post original work, not people who repost other users’ content with a caption slapped on top. Under the new rules, creators earn money based […]
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Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads. “They’re clearly dominating on open models […]
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China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export controls on advanced semiconductors have dominated the debate over China’s AI capabilities, Chinese experts are increasingly warning that data scarcity could prove equally limiting, and unlike chips, there is no […]
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South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts by any emerging economy to force borderless digital tokens back inside decades-old exchange control machinery. Under the proposal, South African companies could not make cross-border crypto transfers […]
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Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to take more time off. An employee had asked whether the gains could be channelled into reviving “Meta Days,” a cancelled holiday programme that gave staff a few extra days off. […]
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Hidden code in ChatGPT’s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp. An APK teardown by Android Authority found references to an “Add to WhatsApp” option in the sharing menu. Instead of sending AI-generated images as regular pictures, ChatGPT would prepare them […]
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Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and strips out everything a human browser needs but an agent does not: tabs, extensions, themes, pixel-perfect rendering, and 60-fps scrolling. What […]
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Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded that capitalism is better at solving problems. “I’ve spent a fair amount of time on philanthropy, and it’s vastly less efficient at solving problems than capitalism,” the Pershing Square founder told Fortune. “You create far more jobs through capitalism than […]
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NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The company, a 2013 spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, builds photorealistic digital replicas of factories, plants, and […]
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Disney is testing AI-powered search inside both ESPN and Disney+, the company announced on Wednesday. ESPN Search lets a small group of users ask sports questions in natural language and receive answers, stats, related content, and recommendations drawn from decades of ESPN’s articles, videos, research data, and internal knowledge repositories. On Disney+, a separate beta […]
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Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair pitched a story centered entirely on a droid, with none of the franchise’s established characters. It did not happen. Farnaby revealed the project in a Variety interview promoting his latest […]
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BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting. Two years later, they have a working prototype. Deep Orange 17, which BMW calls the Luminetta, is a two-seat solar EV covered in more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells developed with […]
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Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs, though Zenity stresses that is aggregate downloads, […]
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Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software purchasing habits, where success is judged by logins, subscriptions, or the performance of an individual application. That perspective may overlook the broader operational influence AI can have across an organization. […]
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OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model and scaling up security while testing continues. “Critical” is the top rung […]
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The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen to lead the round. The raise follows a revenue surge. […]
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Google and its Antigravity team have built a prototype AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5. The Gemma Translator uses Gemma 4 E2B, the smallest model in Google’s open-weight family, to process speech locally without any cloud connection. The device includes a microphone and speaker inside a custom 3D-printed enclosure, creating […]
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Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform for buying ads within AI chatbots and agents, a supply-side platform for developers […]
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The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the […]
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OpenAI is removing usage limits on text chats for free ChatGPT users, the company announced on Thursday. The change means free users can send unlimited text-only messages without hitting a daily cap. Limits on image generation, file uploads, and voice tools will still apply. The company is also switching the default model for all users […]
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Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot. The company has launched a single Adobe plugin for ChatGPT that pulls in Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Express, and its Firefly generative models. It replaces the handful of […]
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Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. Users can describe what they want in natural language, and Ask Maps will surface options, populate […]
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The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products. The pitch is “build once, run anywhere”. Today, every agent tool expects […]
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