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While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It […]
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A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a “Kimi moment”, echoing the DeepSeek shock of early 2025. The comparison is doing a lot of work, and not all of it […]
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The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to. Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and you’re not disorganized. Traditional browsers were never […]
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Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […]
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AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […]
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Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […]
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The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses […]
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Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […]
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AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […]
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What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […]
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