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Samsung says ‘Tim Cook’ bought a Galaxy Fold
That isn't Apple's former CEO promoting the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in a new Samsung ad - "Tim Cook from Pal...
Ikea supersized its cheap Bluetooth speaker and ad...
Ikea's new Badkruka wireless Bluetooth speaker is now available in the US for $59.99. It's reminisce...
Chinese robot startup JoyIn says OpenAI copied its...
JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chie...
Amazon lets its advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT in ...
Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads anno...
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff u...
US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have an...
Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad bus...
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected ...
The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre a...
The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project i...
Arizona’s lifeline for chip manufacturing is dryin...
Arizona, an epicenter for the bipartisan push to revive American chip manufacturing, is about to los...
Oracle is spending more on building data centres t...
Oracle told investors this week that it is sitting on $664bn of work it has agreed to do and has not...
Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report sa...
“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Co...
Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival ...
Insta360's first compact steadicam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch...
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satelli...
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite co...
HelmGuard raises $7.3m to replace compliance paper...
London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies ...
Apple addresses iPhone Duo copycats
Apple was far from the first company to announce a passport-shaped folding phone this year, but that...
Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in com...
The first International Space Summit closed at the Grand Palais in Paris on Thursday with about €20b...
Amazon adds Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its b...
“If there is a way in, the modern AI threat will find it,” Kevin Mandia wrote in March, in the blog ...
AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-...
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Co...
Seed Capital closes a €130M fifth fund and expands...
Seed Capital has closed its fifth fund at €130mn and will use it to invest outside Denmark for the f...
Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybre...
Sam Altman has been pitching American electric utilities on using OpenAI’s models to defend the powe...
Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini
Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential o...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services wit...
OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data b...
California has banned personalised feeds for under...
California has banned personalised recommendation feeds and autoplay for users under 16, in a packag...
Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and rep...
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presen...
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the P...
A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scie...
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surve...
Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to u...
Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it ...
Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandbox...
AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environment...
TAR raises $120m at a $1bn valuation to build off-...
TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin comp...
Motive pulls its IPO filing after raising $1.3bn f...
Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund,...
Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for L...
WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger ...
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ...
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent frame...
Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast m...
Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greece’s first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station...
BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull mar...
BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the marke...
Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving...
Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the com...
Microsoft patches a record 974 flaws, and two are ...
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the c...
Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the ...
Euno has raised a $23m Series A led by N47. The startup builds what it calls a context platform for ...
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is over half off at unde...
Looking to take full advantage of your 4K television, but your current streaming stick doesn’t have ...
Snap launches a planning tool for organising meet-...
Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to ...
ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licen...
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a m...
Top Pentagon official dismisses viral AI warning f...
The Pentagon’s chief technology officer publicly dismissed a former Anthropic researcher’s viral war...
Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, B...
Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company fo...
Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than...
Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at ...
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one...
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, whic...
Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos ...
Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before re...
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling rob...
Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commerci...
Electric air taxis get the green light for test fl...
A new federal program to test the feasibility of electric, hybrid-electric, and autonomous aircraft ...
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, i...
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own ...
More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study fin...
The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% t...
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform ...
Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its ...
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, we...
“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations...
