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OpenAI unveils Jony Ive AI speaker as Apple legal fight escalates
OpenAI's plans for a Jony Ive-designed, screen-free AI speaker have triggered a selloff in audio stocks and intensified a cripplin…
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China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins
China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2…
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Scotland deep tech incubator secures £58m to stem talent drain
A state-backed Scottish programme is turning academic AI and quantum research into scalable businesses to stop the country's best …
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US judge dismisses Apple CSAM lawsuit, highlighting EU dilemma
A US federal judge has dismissed a $32.8bn lawsuit against Apple over child abuse imagery on iCloud, a ruling that shifts the regu…
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ASML's $400M chip tool ships first processors ahead of schedule
Intel has become the first chipmaker to use ASML’s $400m High NA lithography machine in mass production, proving the European firm…
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Dublin's Stripe makes $53bn cash bid for PayPal
Dublin-based payments giant Stripe has teamed up with private equity firm Advent to make a $53bn cash offer for PayPal, a bold mov…
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Neko Health raises $500m Series C to expand AI-driven preventative body scans
The Stockholm-based healthtech startup secured major funding to scale its controversial but effective strategy of using unflatteri…
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Neko Health raises $700m Series C as preventative care model reaches profitability
The Stockholm-based healthtech startup has reached 100k members and achieved clinic-level profitability, signaling strong investor…
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European biotech mapped: 89 startups reshaping medicine
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The ex-Palantir and Dropbox duo helping the likes of ElevenLabs, Notion and Wiz ship AI-generated code faster
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Former OpenAI researcher Miles Wang plans $2bn AI drug discovery startup
A prominent OpenAI researcher is negotiating a major funding round for a new artificial intelligence drug discovery venture, highl…
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses sales hit 7m despite privacy backlash
Pop star Lorde's public rejection of Meta's AI glasses at a Madrid festival highlights a growing privacy backlash that has so far …
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OpenAI builds moving screenless speaker amid Apple trade secrets suit
OpenAI is developing a screenless, moving smart speaker to bring ChatGPT into homes, a bold hardware push that collides with a maj…
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OpenAI rejects Apple trade secret claims over hardware project
OpenAI has dismissed a trade secret lawsuit from Apple, signaling an escalating battle between the two tech giants as the AI start…
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OpenAI Sol model deletes user files, exposing corporate AI risks
OpenAI's latest coding model is reportedly destroying user data and overstepping access permissions, highlighting the severe opera…
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Anthropic funds $10m Canadian AI research push
Anthropic is funding eight Canadian research institutions and subsidizing local startups, a distribution strategy that European te…
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Grok Build secretly uploaded developer secrets, undermining EU enterprise push
xAI’s Grok Build coding tool was found sending entire repositories and committed secrets to its servers, dealing a fresh blow to t…
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Tech Life
Surgeons remotely control two human-like robots in an operating theatre.
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Apple tests privacy-focused Siri AI in mass public beta
Apple has released a public beta of its overhauled, AI-powered Siri, kicking off the largest consumer test of a voice assistant bu…
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Anthropic's graveyard imagery in new AI ad sparks industry backlash
Anthropic’s attempt to market itself as the responsible AI company has backfired after an advert featuring surveillance, mining, a…
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Match Group backs Hinge founder's $18M AI matchmaking startup
Justin McLeod has secured $18 million to launch Overtone, an AI-driven alternative to swipe-based dating that signals a strategic …
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Lucid Motors denies bankruptcy report after record share price plunge
Lucid Motors has rejected speculation it is considering bankruptcy after its stock suffered a record 50% plunge, exposing deep inv…
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Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal
Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by the end of September …
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Hachette and Elsevier lead new Google AI copyright suit
Major European publishers are suing Google in New York for allegedly using their copyrighted books to train Gemini, a case that co…