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The FBI has revealed a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-wo

Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displa

The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency

CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company that began life as a New Jersey cryptocurrency mining operation called Atlantic Crypto, has been selected for inc

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s att

The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washingt

Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches

Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.005 per second, or 0.48 rupees.

Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., identifies the architectural fail

China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Was

SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models

London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with fringe events running across

Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. The videos feature Spotify’s cur

Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest le

Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise. The group used AI, including

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system” if

The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful

Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before

Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special perm

Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasse

Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs ea

EngineAI, a Chinese maker of humanoid robots, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people

OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Co

Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, c