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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
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Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI
Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and worker…
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Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag
The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to tra…
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Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes
The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was me…
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SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, …
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Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push to integrat…
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
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Apple lawsuit threatens OpenAI hardware plans and $852bn IPO
Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI risks delaying the startup’s first device and clouding its path to a public listing at…
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‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X
Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men…
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Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.
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Never-skilling: the research says juniors using AI never learn to debug
Research published this year has given a name to something employers have been circling for a while. Deskilling is what happens wh…
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Yann LeCun’s new VC fund lasted eight hours. Then it vanished
A shiny new VC firm named the AI pioneer as a partner on Friday morning. By Friday night, the fund did not exist. Yann LeCun has h…
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Anthropic recruits Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield for AI compute team
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Nscale’s £2bn UK data centre hit by grid delays
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Moneybox crowned Europe’s newest unicorn as it gears up to test London’s Pisces market
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Helsing raises $1.8bn backed by Goldman and Lightspeed
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The most innovative calorie tracking apps of 2026
Back in the mid-2000s, calorie and macro tracking was a niche practice. You weighed your food, looked it up in a database, and wro…
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Xi Jinping will give the keynote at China’s flagship AI summit for the first time
Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and deliver a keynote…
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French-backed Raxio raises $380m for African data centre push
French infrastructure investor Meridiam has backed a $380m funding boost for Raxio Group’s expansion into Tanzania, targeting a ma…
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Brussels eyes social media design limits over child age bans
The European Commission is set to propose restrictions on addictive social media features rather than a blanket age ban, a regulat…
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South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom
South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger t…
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TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model
Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition target…
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TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi
TSMC will build additional advanced packaging fabs in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Sci…
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Samsung pulls its first Yongin chip plant forward to 2029
Samsung Electronics is moving to begin operations at the first chip plant in its Yongin cluster in 2029, one to two years earlier …