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Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate

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Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date…

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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

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The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness

American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the ti…

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Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3

Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms, seeking up to 30% of the revenue those services generate, ac…

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Deloitte will pay $21.5M to settle a DOJ investigation into its diversity targets

Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5M to settle a US Justice Department investigation into its diversity practices, without admitting liability. The firm is one of the largest technol…

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MindRank’s oral GLP-1 is the furthest along any AI-native drug programme

MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of …

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SpaceX is spending $100bn on a second Starbase, on an old Exxon site in Louisiana

SpaceX will build a second Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on a former Exxon property on the Gulf Coast, and it puts the price at $ 100 billion. The company describes it …

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Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens

Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a …

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The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional

The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the die…

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Microsoft employees built their own pay spreadsheet, and it shows two companies

Around 600 Microsoft employees have entered their pay into a crowdsourced spreadsheet circulating internally, and the resulting picture is of a company that now compensates two qu…

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Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection

Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection…

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Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it

Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software companies can build an ancillary tool, prove that it solves a real p…

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AI won’t transform healthcare until we fix information overload

Healthcare does not need more information. It needs better ways to help clinicians identify what matters. The industry has spent years pursuing more data as the path to better out…

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Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company

Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years accidentally consolidating around a single American issuer. The neoba…

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Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikke…

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Nvidia is about to report its fastest growth in seven quarters

Nvidia is expected to report quarterly revenue of $92.18bn, close to double the same period last year and its fastest growth in seven quarters, with analysts forecasting a further…

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Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point

Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat bef…

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Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting

Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The c…

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Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

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Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped

Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature “helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped”, as internal docu…

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FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise

Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026, TechnologyWire FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-gr…

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Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil

Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market, with Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly among …

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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.

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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.