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Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

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Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner

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A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

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Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

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Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

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Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses AI to enforce moderation by intent, not keywords. Automod’s other features stay.

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Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

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Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.

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GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.

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The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

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Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10

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TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

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An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.

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Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.

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Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%

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The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private

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Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left

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Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

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Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

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AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

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LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.

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Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

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A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

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$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

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Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets

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X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

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Disney sells its last big cable stake to Hearst for $1.2bn

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Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

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Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis

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How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

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AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat

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Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

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SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

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Europe missed the AI labs but is winning the toolshed

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UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

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