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Prince William is bringing homelessness prevention to London Tech Week for the first time

The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week on Wednesday for the first time, chairing a panel on how data and technology can identify people at risk of homelessness before they lose their homes. It is the first time homelessness prevention has appeared on the event’s agenda. The panel, hosted by entrepreneur Jake Humphrey, will feature […]

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BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story

BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “golden era” was over. The prediction arrives on the same day the Pentagon added […]

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Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the chipmaker’s sales to China and US export controls. Warren had asked Huang to appear under oath to discuss how Nvidia’s AI chips reach Chinese buyers and whether they end up in military applications. Huang […]

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Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this autumn with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, land on the […]

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Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and robotics company Unitree to a list of entities it says support the Chinese military, the Department of Defense announced on Monday. The updated 1260H list now names 188 companies that the Pentagon identifies as operating in the United States and contributing to China’s military-civil fusion strategy. The […]

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For the second time, Apple Intelligence is delayed in Europe, and this time there is no timeline

Apple announced on Monday that Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant it unveiled hours earlier at WWDC 2026, will not be available on iPhone or iPad in the European Union when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 ship later this year. The company said EU regulators rejected every proposal Apple put forward over several months to bring […]

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Nashville Zoo says a proposed AI data centre could stop its endangered leopards from breeding

The Nashville Zoo has launched a campaign to block a 69,000-square-foot AI data centre proposed by Georgia-based DC BLOX on a site roughly 50 yards from the zoo’s animal enclosures. A petition against the project has drawn nearly 300,000 signatures in less than a week. Nashville’s Metro Council is now considering a data centre moratorium, […]

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A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax

US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump imposed on H-1B visa applications is an unlawful tax and must be vacated. The ruling found that the proclamation violated both the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, because Congress had not delegated the power to […]

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FCC gives Amazon Leo more time on satellite deployment but strips its spectrum priority

The Federal Communications Commission has freed Amazon from a requirement to deploy the first 1,616 satellites in its Amazon Leo broadband constellation by 30 July, issuing a conditional waiver instead of the two-year extension Amazon requested in January. The compromise keeps the final deadline intact: all 3,232 planned Gen 1 satellites must still be in […]

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Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. The directive replaces the Biden administration’s NSM-25, which had governed AI in national security since 2024, and adds a provision that no commercial […]

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