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China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs
SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok
London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first
Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist
Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.
Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts
IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”
From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage
Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China

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