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Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO

Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays, Bloomberg reported, citing the Telegraph. The paper did not say why Microsoft walked away. Authorities have […]

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World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports

The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank’s chief knowledge officer, said AI could speed up growth in emerging economies, but only if it fits local needs, the Guardian reported. Small AI uses specialised models trained on narrower […]

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Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs

Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC reported. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced it on X, and Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, […]

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Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports

Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue, which features the iPhone Duo. “The constraints in memory are absolutely […]

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Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join

More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. Its newest partners include Axios, CNN, the Financial Times and Forbes. “Through this licensing program, we pay participating news publications for the delivery […]

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Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports

Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, according to the report. “I can reach CEOs on this better than you can.” Bill Gates, to one person he consulted on AI safety, according […]

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Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini

Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday. Brin pointed to the Flash models Google released before Gemini 4 as evidence. “And now our researchers and the model work hand in hand to make […]

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Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was made for the Think Health conference in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Friday. “I think that’s a terrible use of AI […]

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Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse

Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Flock would “fire” a customer that knowingly broke the law, he said, TechCrunch reported. “Most of the […]

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Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says

Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business Insider picked up this week. It extends the company’s earlier research on how AI chatbots affect jobs. Different jobs […]

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