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Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news

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Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind that changes hour by hour. Apple declined to comment to the Journal. It did not […]

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Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded

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Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […]

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Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software

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The Industrial Accelerator Act arrived on 4 March 2026 as COM(2026)100, alongside an impact assessment and three staff working documents, per the European Commission. Its formal title says what it is for. It establishes a framework for accelerating industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. It is a proposal, not a law. It is now […]

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Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

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The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]

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Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

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Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]

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Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

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The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg’s messages and Coller declined to […]

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Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets

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Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands one of China’s autonomous-driving champions a route onto the continent’s streets through an American app and a scattering of local fleet owners. The arrangement is divided as Pony.ai supplies the Level 4 self-driving technology and […]

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Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal

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Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal, having landed a prized mandate that effectively casts it as the lead, and for now near-sole, lender behind one of the largest infrastructure-funding efforts […]

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Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn

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Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever struck, and a rare vote of confidence in a corner of […]

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Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba

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Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing has approved to offer a proprietary AI model in mainland China, a rare concession […]

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