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Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away

Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has […]

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Apple moves its deal team back under the CFO after seven years

Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the company’s net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read as room to buy things. It also promoted Carson Oliver to run the App Store, a job that is now mostly about European regulation. Apple […]

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Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research

Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britain’s regulator named three of the five donors that morning. Five […]

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Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule

Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables […]

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AI model evaluator Arena nearly doubles its valuation to $3.1B

Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users, which is a harder thing to crowdsource. Arena has raised $200M at […]

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Google launches workplace AI agent that gets its own email address

Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the year asking about. Google […]

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US suspending permanent residency programme for Microsoft and Capgemini, officials say

The US is suspending eight technology firms from PERM, the labour certification step that precedes an employer-sponsored green card, citing alleged fraud. Capgemini is the only European company named, and North America is its fastest-growing region at 29% of group revenue. The US has suspended eight technology companies from the programme that lets employers sponsor […]

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