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Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His company has just raised $600m at a $2.7bn valuation. Vitruvian Partners […]

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Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035

“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2026 opened, and they explain most of what it launched there. The first is Intelligent World 2035, subtitled Turning Vision into Action. The second is the Global […]

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Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argument is that Chinese developers have not yet hit the safety […]

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Oracle got AI working on itself only this year

Over the past two years, Oracle has invested tens of billions of dollars to build the infrastructure that powers other companies’ AI. But it wasn’t until April that its own employees received a broadly useful AI tool. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk admitted, “I don’t think we figured out how to make AI really that useful for […]

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‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AI

Geoffrey Hinton gave the United States Senate a deadline on Wednesday, and it was shorter than the legislative calendar. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he said, about how long Congress has to put guardrails around artificial intelligence. He was speaking at a closed, hour-long briefing at the Capitol convened by […]

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Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operations.” He was unveiling Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data centre solution in Shenzhen. Days later the same […]

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OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cut off from its own models three weeks ago. OpenAI announced the […]

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Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Huawei then spent three days setting out the machines it wants to run that revolution on. Most […]

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Google Home opens up to Claude, OpenClaw and any other MCP agent

“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour.” That warning sits inside the setup guide for Google Home MCP. Google opened it to […]

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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, on the day OpenAI started building its own legal research index. OpenAI introduced Astra for Law […]

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