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This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.

A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to take off and land vertically. The two firms announced the milestone this week. The nozzle that does the trick […]

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Everyone is cramming AI into phones. Light’s new flip phone strips it all out.

The flip phone is back, and this one has a cause. Light, the Brooklyn maker of deliberately boring phones, has unveiled the Light Flip, its first clamshell and its fourth device in a decade. It costs $299 and lands with a pointed message: as Apple and Google push AI deeper into everything, Light is building […]

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Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans to open another almost immediately, targeting a valuation of as much as $50 billion. Two rounds, one summer The […]

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US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years

Computer science was the safe bet. For twenty years, enrolment in the US only went up. In the 2025-26 academic year, it went down. The reversal The finding comes from Jacob Light, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Business Insider reported his research. His dataset is vast: more than 50 million course sections since 1996, […]

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Halliday made 2025’s worst smart glasses. Its camera-free comeback is aimed at your meetings.

It is rare that a crowdfunded hardware startup gets a second shot at a first impression. Halliday is taking it. The company unveiled the G2 on Tuesday, priced from $499, shipping in September. A brutal first act The original glasses were panned. Engadget scored them 54 out of 100, one of the lowest marks in […]

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Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China. On the same day, the chief executive of the company that powers the entire AI boom went the other way. The threat Bessent said the US will scrutinise Chinese open-source models for stolen intellectual property, as Bloomberg first reported. It could […]

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Databricks’ cofounder just raised $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

The company came out of stealth on Tuesday. The founders built it at UC Berkeley, in the same lab that produced Spark, Databricks, and Anyscale. The team includes Zongheng Yang and Databricks co-founders Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. The star-studded cheque Lux Capital led the $20 million seed, Fortune first reported. Coatue, Amplify, Foundation, Race, […]

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Over half the music uploaded to Deezer is now AI, and most of it is fraud

The tide has crossed the halfway mark. Deezer said this week that AI songs made up more than 50% of its June uploads. It is a first for the French streamer. From a trickle to a flood The climb has been steep. Deezer started counting in January 2025, when AI made up roughly 10% of […]

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BlackRock is raising $12bn to build Meta a data centre it will own, lend to, and rent out

On Monday, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley began pitching investors on a bond sale of at least $12 billion, as The Wall Street Journal reported. The money will build a Meta data centre in El Paso, Texas. The structure is the story. Who owns what BlackRock and its infrastructure and private-credit arms own 80% of the […]

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Google and Ford are funding a push into the trades, the jobs their AI can’t do

The four companies announced the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades on Tuesday. The pitch is a labour shortage. The subtext is harder to miss. The number behind it Employers cannot find enough electricians, technicians, and builders. The alliance puts the gap at 2.1 million unfilled skilled-trade jobs by 2030, across manufacturing, infrastructure, and energy. It […]

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