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Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster

Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm, and now backs European deep-tech startups through Amadeus Capital. That is four decades of watching technology […]

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Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built

Mistral set out the plan on 11 August. Its own announcement covers three things at once. Regional endpoints are now generally available, letting customers pick Europe or the US for inference. A Priority Tier in public preview adds custom rate limits and an uptime commitment. The third part is the one that funds the other […]

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Reddit is joining the S&P 500 with its stock down 31% this year

The index provider announced the change on 13 August, in a release issued at 18:12 in New York. Reddit enters under the Communication Services sector. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange as RDDT. A second change follows two days later. Sun Communities replaces Webster Financial in the S&P MidCap 400 on 20 August. […]

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Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news

Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind that changes hour by hour. Apple declined to comment to the Journal. It did not […]

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Flock Safety cuts data retention to seven days after dozens of police abuse cases

Garrett Langley, the company’s chief executive, set out the package in a post on Flock’s own blog on 13 August. It covers six areas. Privacy, accountability, data ownership, data security, data accuracy and transparency. Most of the Flock Safety privacy changes become mandatory for law enforcement customers on 1 January, the Associated Press reported. What […]

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Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded

Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […]

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Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board

The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’re not talking about AI correctly,” he said. The second part is the product. “We need to actually be developing more products […]

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Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]

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Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]

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Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg’s messages and Coller declined to […]

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