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China hits back at the Pentagon with curbs on 56 US firms

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China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington adding Chinese firms to its military blacklist. China has answered the Pentagon’s blacklist with one of its own. On Monday, Beijing aimed trade curbs at 56 American companies. The measures hit drone makers and defence […]

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Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre

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The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in the United States by burning natural gas. The […]

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The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI

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Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching machines […]

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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

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AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […]

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Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims

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A new book paints an unflattering picture of how Silicon Valley’s most powerful men handled Donald Trump’s return to power. According to its authors, they grovelled. And Trump, they write, mocked them for it behind their backs. The book is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”, by the New York Times reporters […]

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Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI

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Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-time 50 per cent tax on their stock, paid in shares rather […]

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A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

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The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […]

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A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules

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Silicon Valley is spending more than $100mn to elect politicians who will leave AI alone. A new group of tech workers wants to fight back with a fraction of that. The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that supports AI regulation, launched on Thursday with money from tech employees, labour unions and parents. Democratic operatives Shaunna […]

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Disney is joining the AI-ad arms race, just as audiences turn on ‘slop’

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Disney is about to start making your ads with AI. The company is preparing to launch a beta version of a tool that generates television ads using AI, a Disney executive told staff at an internal meeting, according to a recording obtained by Business Insider. The beta is due in July. Scripts, video and music […]

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GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry

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Ask an industrial engineer how their plant would recover if a controller’s code got corrupted or encrypted, and the honest answer is often grim: a backup on someone’s laptop, in a folder named “final_backup_2”. Copia Automation wants to replace that with something closer to how software teams work. The New York startup has raised $26mn […]

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