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ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales
ASML will give all employees globally a one-time €20,000 ($22,862) share award, the company confirmed on Friday. The bonus vests o…
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Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars
Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fe…
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Patreon actively blocks AI training bots via Cloudflare
The creator platform is abandoning passive defences to actively block AI data scrapers, signalling a shift in how digital business…
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reMarkable targets professionals with new $399 Paper Pure tablet
reMarkable has released the $399 Paper Pure, a monochrome tablet designed to eliminate workplace distractions, signalling a contin…
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SAP closes €1bn-plus deal for German AI lab Prior Labs
SAP has closed a €1bn-plus acquisition of German AI lab Prior Labs, securing a rare European win in frontier technology that shift…
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Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Ser…
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No product? No problem. This Disrupt 2026 session shows how to get pre-seed funding with conviction, storytelling
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone loo…
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Eoptolink seeks $5bn Hong Kong listing on AI optics boom
A Chinese maker of optical transceivers that supply Google and Amazon is seeking up to $5bn in Hong Kong, exposing the deep interd…
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Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke
The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with …
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Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life
The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tab…
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China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind
Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice comm…
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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
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Binance leads crypto shift from trading venues to financial super apps
Cryptocurrency exchanges are abandoning their origins as simple trading venues to become integrated financial platforms, a structu…
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Europe’s VCs are increasingly taking on jobs at their startups
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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents
AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Run…
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Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has pi…
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An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a r…
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An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US
The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phone…
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Top US AI labs urge Washington to lead frontier regulation
The leaders of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic have united to call for a single US-led regulator for advanced AI, a push tha…
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Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI
Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the c…
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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs
Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand…
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STEM degrees offer tenfold advantage in AI era, says DeepMind chief
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and other tech leaders are pushing back against the notion that AI eliminates the need for techni…
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DeepMind philosopher reveals strain of AI's wartime commercial race
Google DeepMind's reliance on an in-house philosopher to prevent AI alignment failures highlights the growing tension between rapi…
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Shared AI agents expose governance gaps in European firms
A shift towards shared "multiplayer" AI agents is forcing European businesses to confront major governance blind spots as personal…