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Lucid Motors’ CFO is out as its new CEO continues leadership shakeup
The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not taking off as …
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Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers
Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment an…
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Ford’s Q2 US sales fell 10.3% as EV sales dropped 40.7% and an aluminium shortage hit F-Series trucks
Ford reported a 10.3% decline in US new vehicle sales for the second quarter, selling 549,200 vehicles compared with 612,095 a yea…
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US government says it got hacked — again
A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sha…
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Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. …
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Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked
Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. …
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Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
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Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature
A feature in Meta's glasses which boosts the voice of people will be capped at three hours for free use.
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Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen
For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new m…
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Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge
A $3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators wa…
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Tesla saw a massive sales jump in the second quarter
The company delivered more than 480,000 EVs globally, seemingly thanks to geographic expansion and cheaper versions of the Model 3…
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A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI
Chinese startup’s latest AI model has landed fourth on one of the industry’s most closely watched intelligence rankings, and it co…
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The two bets founders are taking in physical AI
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Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine
The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Google’s final appeal against a €4.1 billion antitrust fine, ending an ei…
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Rivian raises EV sales forecast as Q2 production ramps up
The company now expects to ship a few thousand more vehicles by the end of 2026 than it previously expected, after launching its R…
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Alva Industries raises €16M to scale its ultra-compact electric motors
Alva Industries has raised €16 million to scale production of its ultra-compact electric motors, the Trondheim based deep-tech com…
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UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults
A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation …
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Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Clau…
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Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later
Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the …
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Novo Nordisk’s owner backs an Italian fund to grow drug startups beyond Denmark
Novo Holdings, the investment company that controls Novo Nordisk and holds the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is backing a…
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India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the…
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Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable
Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore an…
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Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq raises $35m to rent out AI chip design instead of selling chips
Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom…
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US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models
The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Fina…