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China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says
A China Telecom report says inference will be 80% of the country's compute market by 2029. Europe's gigafactories are due online in…
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Li Auto will launch in Europe this quarter, six years earlier than it said it would
Li Auto is bringing battery cars to Europe and leaving its extended-range models out. The EU's tariff on Chinese EVs covers range…
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Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon's Quick desktop app is generally available. Its pitch is governance, but Quick is not on the service list for AWS's European…
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Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
Andy Burnham won’t back a pause on new UK data centres. A Verdant report says they will create a quarter of the jobs techUK projects.
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Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
The first International Space Summit closed in Paris on 10 September with about €20bn in announced investment and 51 deals, led by a…
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AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
An Anthropic researcher’s warning became an AI extinction meme, with dozens of X users copying his resignation post and swapping in absurd…
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Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Nvidia and Palantir have launched a sovereign AI stack for supply chains, combining Foundry, Ontology and Nemotron models, with Nvidia as…
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A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
Senator Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until 1 October to answer 16 questions about the Hugging Face incident, calling it reckless that…
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China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the NSA, FBI and CISA advisory accusing six Chinese firms of industrial-scale AI distillation,…
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US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted
A joint NSA, FBI and CISA advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI over industrial-scale distillation of…
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CloudNC raises $20M to expand its AI machining tools and launch a quoting product
CloudNC has raised $20m led by Nimble Ventures to widen adoption of its CAM Assist machining software and launch Quote Agent, an AI…
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Google will invest €13bn in four Finnish data centre sites over two years
Google will invest €13bn across four Finnish data centre sites in 2027 and 2028, backed by a 22-year Loviisa nuclear agreement, 629MW of…
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Slovenia becomes the sixth EU country to clear Tesla’s FSD, a month before the bloc votes
Slovenia is the sixth EU country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised, weeks before an EU-wide vote at the Technical Committee on Motor…
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Health minister says mistrust of Palantir is pushing NHS patients to opt out of data sharing
Health innovation minister James Frith tells MPs that mistrust of Palantir is driving NHS data opt-outs, with roughly 60,000 more in four…
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Most large organisations think full digital sovereignty is unrealistic, Capgemini finds
A Capgemini survey of 1,300 executives finds 93% have discussed digital sovereignty at board level and 59% think full independence is…
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Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Stockholm’s Fluencify has raised an oversubscribed $4.3m pre-seed led by byFounders, six months after launching its creator marketing…
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Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round
Temasek and London-listed Seraphim Space led a $100m Series C for hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel, taking its total raised to $195M.
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Build the pipeline your investors want to see
Why seed investors read your pipeline before your revenue, and how B2B founders build one early with clear stages, loss data & AI agents…
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Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Seattle Times and Newsday allege OpenAI and Microsoft scraped past paywalls. The EU code OpenAI signed commits it not to do exactly…
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Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
Chinese banks, carriers and a Guangzhou district now sell AI tokens as rewards, monthly plans and loan collateral. The unit is not stable.
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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later
SpaceX and Blue Origin pulled out of Macron's summit under White House pressure. The real fight is the EU Space Act and satellite spectrum.
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America’s disposable workforce is growing. It comes with hidden costs
Below, Paul Osterman shares five key insights from his new book, Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment. Paul is a Professor…
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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
Chrome's sixth exploited zero-day of the year was patched on 3 September. On 11 September the Cyber Resilience Act starts a 24-hour clock.
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AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit's internal records, topping Google. Its pitch answers the conflict TNW found in the Google agreement.