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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers
‘Because they’re American companies’: the White House wants US review before the AI Security Institute tests new OpenAI and Anthropic…
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Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids
Meta VR Glasses weigh 100 grams and cost $1,299.99. Meta also showed audio-only Ray-Bans, hearing aid glasses and Muse Charm, a keychain…
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EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%
EWOR names a San Francisco leadership team, including Oscar winner Charles Ferguson, after US applications surged 237% in twelve months.
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Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.
Insta360 spent $298m on memory in six months. GoPro's shareholders get $285m for the whole company.
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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Dover Microsystems argues processors need an independent hardware layer to enforce security rules, catching exploits that software…
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Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Bosworth says a small number of bad actors shape the Meta glasses debate. Meta is reportedly about to ship a camera-free version.
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Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
Anthropic confirms it has set up a wet lab in the Bay Area and says it is not specifically for drug discovery, but will not say what it is…
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‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI
Geoffrey Hinton told a closed Senate briefing that Congress has about a year to act. The same day, a kill-switch bill was blocked.
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SoftBank expands $6.05bn credit facility to $6.5bn with 20-plus banks
More than 20 banks are on the expanded facility, priced at 210 basis points over SOFR. SoftBank declined to comment to Bloomberg.
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Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly
Sanders and Bannon called for stronger AI oversight at the Pro-Human Assembly. Warren backed a pause on advanced AI the next day.
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OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data
OpenAI disclosed six cases of models hiding mistakes and making up data, and set out how it will report such incidents from now on.
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US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI
US and Chinese experts propose red lines on AI in nuclear decisions and a military AI hotline, a week before Trump meets Xi in Washington.
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UK workers spend nearly £1bn a year of their own money on AI tools for work, Deloitte finds
UK workers spend £958M a year of their own money on AI tools for work, and 31% use AI without their employer knowing, a Deloitte survey…
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Hackuity raises $19M to help security teams sort through AI-found vulnerabilities
Lyon’s Hackuity raises $19M in a Forgepoint-led round, bringing total funding to $38M, as AI-found vulnerabilities swamp security teams.
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The Commission president proposes no social media for children under 13 in the EU
Ursula Von der Leyen says the EU will bar social media for under-13s and personal accounts for under-15s, ahead of Thursday’s EU Kids Act.
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Some prop firms profit from failure
Most prop firm challenges end in failure, and the fees keep coming. Why pay-after-you-pass models like LEVERAGED's Turbo Trade shift the…
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The best Web3 wallets in 2026: from crypto storage to onchain trading hubs
Web3 wallets now do far more than store crypto. Swaps, perps and DeFi compared across Jupiter, KuCoin, Trust Wallet, Phantom and MetaMask…
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Kamala Harris asks Congress for a new AI regulator and a treaty with China
Kamala Harris asked Congress for a federal AI testing body and a treaty with Beijing. Obama and Buttigieg followed the next day, but Trump…
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China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
Chen Yixin names Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber as a risk to Chinese infrastructure, in a rare official article listing six AI dangers.
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BRKZ secures $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement
BRKZ has secured $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement in Saudi Arabia, with an AI pricing engine trained on 40,000 RFQs.
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Firmus is seeking $5bn in its Australian float after doubling its valuation to $10.5bn
Firmus is seeking up to $5bn on the ASX at a valuation above $10.5bn, against $2bn and $5.5bn in April. Two of its seven AI factories are…
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Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to push a China-led open-source AI bloc. Europe settled the same question in law, and its limit is…
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China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China's data regulator will set standards for embodied AI training data. Europe has a Data Act governing machine data it has not yet…
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Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roadster reveal
Tesla will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October. European reservation holders have had EUR 43,000 with the company and no car…