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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day

China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim

Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months

Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines

Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing

Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country

AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability

Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions

Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed

Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time

Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault

Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic

Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls

YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects

Trump signs a memo to clear the regulatory path to three launches a day

Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American

Waymo built its own robotaxi chip and published its supplier list

Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Baidu’s Apollo Go is now on Uber in Dubai, with no safety driver

Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn

Two senators give TikTok until 1 September to explain its safety test

AI can recommend a deal. Governed execution decides whether it should happen

White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list

OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention

Munich Re is buying cyber-insurer At-Bay for $575mn, half its 2021 price

OpenAI’s CFO told staff it will go public in 2027, or sooner

Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors

Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted

A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic

Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce

OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to 31 European countries

A “private and secure” face-search tool left 9 million photos exposed

Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed

Big Tech is on a charm offensive to get its data centres built

The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban

YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix

Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client

Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether they carry news or not