Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.
Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line
DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Angola just raised $321m selling shares in a telco it seized from Africa’s richest woman
Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to €500. The AI memory crisis has reached photography.
The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.
Amazon asked the FCC to approve 5,105 satellites for a network that sends internet straight to your phone
Young adults are using ChatGPT to script their in-person conversations. Psychologists call it an “epidemic of self-mistrust.”
Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case
ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
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A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years
Roku raises streaming device prices by up to 60 percent as the memory shortage reaches the living room
Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028
This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom
CXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers
Nuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels
Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own
Insight Partners And Glilot Capital Co-Lead $20M Investment In Way Security To Reinvent IAM Operations
CXMT soared 466% on day one to become China’s most valuable onshore company
Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand
Nadella won’t call it a bubble. He’ll only say how it ends badly.
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