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Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

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Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by […]

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Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

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Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New York Times reported, citing two people who declined to be […]

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The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later

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The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on […]

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What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch

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The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a […]

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Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

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Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the […]

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Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old

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Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general’s office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunday filed the complaint on 25 August in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. It […]

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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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Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters

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X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site built on Nitter, has also stopped operating. Sarah Perez has read one of the letters and […]

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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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Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

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Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states’ case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, […]

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