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Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027

“Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,” Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of nearly $24 an hour. Amazon said it will put another $1.9bn into […]

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Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control

“It’s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, the CrowdStrike co-founder who is returning to the board of Dragos. The industrial cybersecurity company said on Monday it has closed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The deals completed alongside the close of Accenture’s majority […]

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A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […]

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The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption but what a data center puts back: heat recovered and reused, clean […]

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A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents

The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are […]

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Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the UN General Assembly. The prime minister said that recent statements from some key figures make it hard to […]

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The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week

AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, read the message on his behalf. The message states that technological progress […]

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Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company’s first marketing hire in the United States. The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital […]

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The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on Sunday. Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer, the trade representative, met with He Lifeng, the Vice Premier, […]

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The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, rather than through an executive order or official briefing. “He […]

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