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AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering
Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in rela…
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Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the idea
A reported plan to sell surplus computing power would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and give investors a reason…
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Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damages
A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay more than 14 billion kronor to Klarna’s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favouring i…
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Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese
A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has …
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Lime raises $167M in IPO after years of teasing a public debut
The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.
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Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028
Sony will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation titles starting in January 2028, the company announced on Tuesday…
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GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in
General Motors’ second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverad…
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Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money
Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to ho…
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UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot
UiPath spent much of the year as one of software’s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing ba…
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Meta’s AI reads typed sentences from the brain, no surgery required
Meta says it can turn brain activity into typed sentences without opening your skull. The leap is real. So is the catch: the syste…
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Pie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI search
For 30 years, small businesses fought to rank on Google. Now their customers are asking ChatGPT instead. A New York startup wants …
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The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast
Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and …
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Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for …
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Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first
Fusion’s hard problem was making more energy than you put in. The next one is turning that energy into cheap electricity. A Wiscon…
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Sony to end physical PlayStation game discs in 2028
Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital fu…
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Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres
The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single w…
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Wonka Netflix show faces backlash for AI-generated Gene Wilder voice
The actor, who died in 2016, appears in the Netflix show with the consent of his estate.
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Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors f…
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London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers
The buzziest corner of finance AI is not the trading desk. It is the dull middle office, where staff keep thousands of portfolios …
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Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist
A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and chec…
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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it…
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Building AI Infrastructure Responsibly: ER Steel on the Evolving Demands of Data Center Expansion
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure seems to have brought data centers into a new phase of global development, with growing a…
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Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence
Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to ru…