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Rivian said Tuesday it laid off hundreds of workers, less than 2% of its workforce, as the electric vehicle maker continues trying to narrow losses that have defined its existence as a public company. The cuts affect teams in the service and customer segments, according to a company spokesperson. Rivian had 15,232 employees across North […]
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro feature a redesigned trackpad with haptic feedback that vibrates when you interact with Windows 11. Snap a window to one side of the screen and you feel it. Align an image in PowerPoint and the trackpad confirms the placement. Scrub a video timeline and the vibrations track the […]
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The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology officer of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara, CTO and managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino, a […]
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The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will eliminate most tariffs on US industrial goods. In return, the US caps tariffs on […]
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France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of a wider push to put sovereign technology at the centre of the French state. The timing is the part […]
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OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than two and a half times what it took in, as it prepares to file for one of the largest public listings ever attempted. The figure, reported by the Financial Times, lays out in stark terms what the race to build frontier AI now costs the company leading it. The […]
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Ineffable Intelligence, the London startup founded by the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has named Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for its frontier AI lab. The deal, announced at Google Cloud’s London summit on 16 June, gives a company with grand ambitions and no product the computing scale its founder says the work demands. The founder […]
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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that unsettled the industry with a cheap, capable model last year, has closed its first round of outside funding, raising roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in a deal whose structure is as notable as its size. The valuation lands between $52bn and $59bn, according to Reuters. The unusual part […]
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Florida has sued TikTok, accusing the app of breaking the state’s law restricting minors’ access to social media and of misleading parents about what their children would find there. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the suit on 15 June, filing it in St. Lucie County Circuit Court. The complaint alleges TikTok illegally let minors onto the platform, […]
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The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […]
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