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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 …

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Europe’s entrepreneurs are pushing. When will the capital markets pull?

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The people set to influence tech policy in Burnham’s Britain

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Saudi-backed Scopely buys Pokémon Go maker for $3.5bn

Scopely, owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, has acquired Niantic for $3.5bn, signaling sustained sovereign wealth fun…

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Lyft expands into Spain with Serveo bike-share acquisition

Lyft's planned acquisition of Spanish bike-share operator Serveo marks a direct push into European markets, even as regulatory cra…