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A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

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Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899

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The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

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A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents

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Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

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Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders

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The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week

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London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour

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Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

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The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

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Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

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The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

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ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site

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The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

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SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment

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Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban

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Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October

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Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night

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China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

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Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.

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Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

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Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

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US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

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Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.

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Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.

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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

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Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

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OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

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Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

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Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

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TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

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Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

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Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.

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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

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Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings

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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO

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Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

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Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage

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Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

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Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

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Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

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Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos

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Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe

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Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause

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All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day

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Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

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Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports

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