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Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash
Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish c…
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Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents
The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber's board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in …
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Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol
Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet prot…
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The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
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Amazon invites Indian users to beta-test a Hindi version of Alexa+
Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi-language support, the company’s first move to bring its generative AI assistant to a …
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Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas pow…
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AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and …
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Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest wate…
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Delivery robot startup Robot.com bets its next act on wheeled humanoids for kitchens and warehouses
Robot.com, the San Francisco startup formerly known as Kiwibot, is expanding from campus delivery robots into workplace humanoids.…
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Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem
Lovable CEO Anton Osika says European AI startups do not have a talent shortage, they have a confidence deficit. In a post on X ov…
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A Tesla on Autopilot plowed into a Texas home. The woman inside didn’t survive.
A 76-year-old Texas woman died on Friday after a Tesla Model 3 driver told police he was using the car’s Autopilot feature when he…
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Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach
The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.
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A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak
European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the do…
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Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
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Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation
Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that acquires and restructures digital businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.…
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Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership
Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24, the independent studio behind recent hits including Backrooms and Obsession, as pa…
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Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, …
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Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn
Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to…
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Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support
Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+
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The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes
The AI-driven memory shortage has now reached the oldest DRAM standard still in production. DDR2 contract prices rose 55 to 60 per…
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SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI c…
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What would Andy Burnham do for UK startups?
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A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom
Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia …
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Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock
Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of z…