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PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points

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An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.com.au says it has processed more than $7bn […]

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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificial artificial intelligence”. A banner across the MTurk homepage sets out the decision. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, […]

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Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads

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Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking company’s history. Millennium Management, ARK Invest and Intact Private Capital also took part, and the round brings Gatik’s total to about $500m since it came out of stealth […]

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Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations

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Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25 August has caused “a global disruption to the Company’s operations”, including its ability to process and ship customer orders. Shares fell about 3.5% in premarket trading, and the company has not identified who is responsible, in a year […]

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Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

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Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new product would cost 25 times that. Meta will launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent […]

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The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu

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Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series, and said it would release the weights the same night. Luz Ding got the confirmation for Bloomberg. […]

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A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together

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Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most large technology firms, and campaigners there have managed exactly one. A law from 1634 explains why. Ellen O’Regan set out the problem for Politico from Dublin. Irish law bars anyone from funding a […]

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Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs

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Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every year, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. One of the more striking details is a March planning document recording that Amazon shifted some Canadian direct-import sourcing away from the United States and […]

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