Protesters break into Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam
AI stocks suffer their biggest sell-off in months as data centre backlash reaches Washington
Daniel Dines: workflows will go from people-centric to AI-centric
Amazon drops Grubhub and puts Uber Eats inside its own app
OpenAI hires Uber president Jill Hazelbaker to lead its communications
Airbnb can invest in Brian Chesky’s AI lab, its quarterly filing shows
Paris start-up Physicl raises $10M to make training data for physical AI
Nothing will ship its first AI device in December, and it’s built for work
Meta buys Conductor, whose app runs AI coding agents in parallel
Researcher finds Apple list of phrases the iPhone keyboard won’t suggest
Sam Altman becomes ‘Ram Altman’ and says his memory remark was misread
Titan OS raises $46M to take its smart TV software beyond Europe
TikTok faces EU fine over “For You” feed ‘rabbit hole’ effect
A Chinese inquiry halted OPay’s $304M US IPO, Bloomberg reports
UK now puts AI’s 2030 boost at £120bn, not the £400bn from a Google report
Sequoia closes its London office, saying it can back Europe from California
Waymo’s co-CEO tells Bloomberg the Uber tie-up was a ‘crapshoot’ for riders
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