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Meta brings High Court challenge over Ofcom fees
Meta said Ofcom's calculations were "disproportionate"; the regulator said it would defend its position.
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Watch: Drone delivers first Amazon parcels in UK
The tech giant says it hopes to slowly expand the service as the demand for ultra-fast deliveries grows.
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The no-nonsense judge calling the shots in Musk v Altman trial
The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.
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'I thought he was going to hit me,' OpenAI co-founder says of Musk
OpenAI president Greg Brockman spoke during the second week of a month-long trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
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Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round
QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after r
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Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant
Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.
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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch
The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.
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SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nv
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Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year
The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matches never turn into actual dates. The company wants to fix t
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Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
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Lucid Motors doesn’t know how many EVs it will build this year
Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventory and a companywide cost-cutting measure.
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As crypto cools, a16z crypto raises a $2.2B fund
As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16z crypto's new fund will stay the course.
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Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models
With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a ho
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US to safety test new AI models from Google, Microsoft, xAI
New agreements between the companies and the Commerce department build on Biden-era pacts.
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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us
Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of
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Volkswagen becomes Rivian’s top shareholder, displacing Amazon
VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.
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Tech Life
A sleep apnoea wearable. Plus, tech to free up hospital beds and a breast health app.
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Threads finally brings messaging to the web
By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky.
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Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first US chief brand architect
Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use government
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Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and als
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of
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PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again’ — that means AI
PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5 billion in savings as it cuts jobs and works to moderniz
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Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push
Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.
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Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack
The cybersecurity company says it's seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malici
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