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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable ma…
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What it actually takes to be a top performer at Revolut
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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users co…
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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time
The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662…
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How Europe can build a self-reliant defence tech ecosystem
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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, …
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Grind culture is a failure of management — but we still turn away 9-5 candidates
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America has hit the AI kill switch. How should Europe respond?
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UK defence prime BAE Systems invests €50m in VCs Lakestar, Expeditions
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ASML eyeing more Mistral-style startup bets, CEO says
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.
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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliator…
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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catc…
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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fabl…
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SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7 billion raised
SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.
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UK unveils sweeping social media ban for users under 16
The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms, including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.
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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
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Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal
Fox says the deal will create the third-largest television company in the United States.
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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
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Social media ban - bold and blunt, but no silver bullet
The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman on the big changes coming down the line for young people online.
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Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn
The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate bond offering since 2021, Bloo…
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Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’
The Enflame IPO is on. Shanghai Enflame Technology, an AI-chip startup backed by Tencent, has won listing-committee approval to ra…
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A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.
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AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom
AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity …