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Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way

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Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, the contracted revenue Snowflake has booked but not yet recognised, came in at […]

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The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport

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An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over people’s houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrewed autonomous flights under a federal programme. That programme exists to fold […]

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The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it

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In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company […]

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The first thing Apple’s new CEO did was rename a Canadian lake

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John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. […]

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ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in the Department of Homeland Security’s […]

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Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

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Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on […]

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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

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X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […]

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The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI

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The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it effective. Washington is not proposing rules […]

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Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real

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Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. […]

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Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn

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Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m into a round of roughly $1bn that values Polymarket at $21bn, Forbes reported. Other investors in the round have not been named. The firm was already […]

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