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A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

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Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. The plea, first reported by Politico, came in letters from […]

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A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

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This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. Politico first reported its text. […]

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A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down

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Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down about a quarter this year. It pushed out its chairman in February. And investors worry that a new wave of AI could hollow out its main business. Its answer, announced on Thursday: spend up to […]

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Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts

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On July 23, President Donald Trump stood in the White House and promised that electricity bills for American families would “actually come down,” even as power-hungry AI data centres spread across the grid. T he vehicle was an expanded version of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary scheme first unveiled in March. What energy analysts […]

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AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots

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AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company […]

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Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn

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The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could nearly double if a five-year option is exercised. Oracle has secured a contract with the US Department of War worth as much as $6.99bn, the largest step yet in the Pentagon’s campaign to stop paying for the same software several […]

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Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in

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Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its co-founder Ben Horowitz is joining the board. And among the investors sits […]

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Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one

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For twenty years, the deal between Google and the web was simple. Publishers let Google crawl their pages. Google sent readers back in return. That bargain is breaking. Reddit is the latest, and loudest, sign. Its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company has discussed cutting off […]

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Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months

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Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference, and claims to do it far better. On Thursday the bet got a lot more money behind it. The startup raised $300 million in a Series C round that values it at $10.3 billion. Sequoia led […]

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Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

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The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a simulated body, millions of times over. The company has […]

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