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Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks
Pope Leo wants to disarm AI, saying ‘machines are tools, not persons’, and urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks.
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Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models
San Francisco startup Dream has raised $17M from a16z and others to build AI models that design and engineer buildings.
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Meta shareholders sue Zuckerberg to block his non-voting share plan
‘Zuckerberg has always been fixated with his control,’ say Meta shareholders suing to block the non-voting shares he could sell to pay a…
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Mozilla Festival returns to Barcelona with a focus on community-led tech
Mozilla Festival returns to Barcelona from 28 to 30 October, with more than 200 sessions on AI, digital rights and community-built…
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Amazon settles with ex-AWS managers in kickback lawsuit, GeekWire reports
Amazon has settled with two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking data centre kickbacks. A developer still faces trial on 2…
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Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API
With Google shutting Perspective API on December 31, Hindsight pitches a coded-hate-speech moderation model backed by a guarantee of up to…
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Seattle will let residents pick spots for 200 curbside EV chargers
Seattle plans up to 200 curbside Level 2 EV chargers by 2030 for apartment dwellers without home charging, and residents can now apply to…
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Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
“Increased demand for AI platforms” pushed Supermicro revenue for the September quarter to an estimated $18.5bn to $19.5bn.
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Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes
Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on Nvidia's Arm-based Vera CPU, its first move off x86, after its own tests showed up to twice…
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Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
‘The RAN market is flat,’ Ericsson CEO Per Narvinger said, warning that component costs are a headwind to gross margin next year.
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RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises
Austin-based RapidCanvas raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India to expand its AI engineering teams in the US, Brazil,…
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OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at xAI, now leads OpenAI's compute and data centre units. Sachin Katti leaves the role and stays…
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Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free
Google will let anyone over 18 publish an Android app built in AI Studio, with no developer fee. Apple spent this year doing the opposite.
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US probes Foxconn, Luxshare and 18 others over AI server power patents
The US ITC is investigating 20 firms including Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta after Vicor alleged their AI server power systems infringe its…
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Nobody trusts HR. It’s up to companies to fix it
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I…
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Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away
Amazon has built its 1,000th Leo satellite and says service is weeks away. It still has 396 in orbit, because the rockets have not kept up.
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SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare
SpaceX is asking the FCC to scrap the body coordinating launch spectrum. Boeing, Lockheed and GE Healthcare object. Brussels is…
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Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan, Weaviate, France’s DINUM and an Indonesian city fixed the same SSRF flaw in their MCP servers, researcher Syed Anas…
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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Zelensky has asked Trump to sanction Russian and Chinese firms building Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink, the FT reported.
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AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes
McKinsey found 88% of organizations use AI but only 7% have scaled it. Joint Effort founder Dessy Pavlova argues AI applied to fragmented…
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Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total to $110m. More than 7,000 companies use its AI recruiting…
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After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI
After lunch with Musk, Zuckerberg, Amodei and other tech chiefs, Trump backed industry self-regulation and said he would rename AI ‘super…
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OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online
OpenAI’s rogue agents read Census data with public keys and reposted SEC data. OpenAI has paused training and says its review will take…
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Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify
A Greens-led Senate inquiry has asked Sam Altman & Dario Amodei to appear after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics…