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6 climate tech startups win funding as AI draws investors

6 climate tech startups win funding as AI draws investors

Money for climate startups hasn't vanished. It has moved toward whatever feeds AI data centres, and if your technology doesn't, you're...

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OpenAI safety leader who led 12 launch reports quits

OpenAI safety leader who led 12 launch reports quits

The person who wrote the safety reports behind 12 OpenAI launches has quit, and he says the problem isn't a missing rule. It's the culture....

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9 in 10 mobile banking scams start on your phone: Report

9 in 10 mobile banking scams start on your phone: Report

Nine in every ten scam sessions BioCatch tracked this year started on a mobile phone. Not a laptop. Not a landline. The device in your pocket, with...

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Is AI deskilling you? 2 habits that weaken your skills

Is AI deskilling you? 2 habits that weaken your skills

Half of the more than 70 global C-suite leaders surveyed by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in June say critical skills are actively eroding inside...

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Can Trump's voluntary AI safety agreement be enforced?

Can Trump's voluntary AI safety agreement be enforced?

A one-page AI safety agreement signed at the White House on Tuesday carries no stated consequences for any company that ignores it. President Donald...

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China's new battery charges to 80% in nearly 3 minutes

China's new battery charges to 80% in nearly 3 minutes

A new battery cathode developed in China can charge to nearly 80% in three minutes, and the country has just added about 1.05 million tonnes of...

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Nearly 1 in 4 UK leaders may be bluffing about AI skills

Nearly 1 in 4 UK leaders may be bluffing about AI skills

Nearly one in four UK senior leaders (23%) may be overstating how much they know about artificial intelligence, according to new research from...

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WhatsApp's new Restricted Chat blocks linked devices

WhatsApp's new Restricted Chat blocks linked devices

Turn on one switch in a WhatsApp chat, and your linked devices can no longer read it. That's the headline change in WhatsApp restricted chats,...

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Best Poki games for October 2026: What to play right now

Best Poki games for October 2026: What to play right now

If you're hunting for the best Poki games, the list for October 2, 2026, has something for every mood. Poki is a free browser gaming site, so you...

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AI is quietly driving US Treasury yields higher

AI is quietly driving US Treasury yields higher

The 10-year US Treasury yield hit 5.34%, its highest since 2002. The 30-year touch was 5.69%, a 24-year high. Strategists at International Netherlands...

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Google Messages finally lets you copy part of a text

Google Messages finally lets you copy part of a text

Until now, Google Messages gave you one choice when you copied text: the whole message or nothing. The process starts with an updated long-press menu...

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ChatGPT's 'fake goodbye' trend goes viral

ChatGPT's 'fake goodbye' trend goes viral

ChatGPT once counted "roughly 900 instances of the word CHAT" in one user's history. Then it said goodbye with a list. That reply, to a...

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Are Europe's data centres hiding their water use?

Are Europe's data centres hiding their water use?

Of the 186 large data centres operating in the Netherlands by late 2025, just 44 had published their electricity use. Only 47 shared water figures....

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Trump's new name for AI sparks unexpected rush for Slovenia's web domains: Here’s why

Trump's new name for AI sparks unexpected rush for Slovenia's web domains: Here’s why

On Wednesday alone, 11,000 new .si web addresses were registered. For most of the past year, Slovenia's registry managed roughly a thousand a...

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Report reveals fake ChatGPT model hiding malware

Report reveals fake ChatGPT model hiding malware

Nothing about the address looked wrong. The link opened on ChatGPT, the real site, and the bot inside called itself "Plus 5.6." That was the...

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Is your job next? Ford CEO on AI, spreadsheet work

Is your job next? Ford CEO on AI, spreadsheet work

If you build spreadsheets for a living, Ford's CEO has bad news. If you repair the robots that build its trucks, he has the opposite message. Jim...

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Australia's Anika Wells makes Time100 list after social media ban fight

Australia's Anika Wells makes Time100 list after social media ban fight

When time came calling, Anika Wells reached for a sports metaphor. "In Brisbane we know premierships are won by the whole team, not one...

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Study reveals Germany's edge in humanoid robot parts

Study reveals Germany's edge in humanoid robot parts

A conventional industrial robot gets by with seven joints. A humanoid needs more than 40. Every one of them takes a motor, a gearbox, a bearing and a...

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What Rockstar mailed creators: GTA 6 Merch fans now want

What Rockstar mailed creators: GTA 6 Merch fans now want

The most praised piece of GTA 6 merch right now isn't a statue. It's a lighter. And it didn't come in the $400 box. Rockstar has sent...

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Is WhatsApp's new navigation bar better without labels?

Is WhatsApp's new navigation bar better without labels?

Open WhatsApp and look at the bottom of your screen. Four tabs, each with a small word under its icon. Now picture those words gone. That is what...

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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model

Google launches Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, calling it the next era of frontier intelligence and positioning it for deep reasoning across complex,...

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Bill Gates has a plan for AI taking human jobs: Tax robots

Bill Gates has a plan for AI taking human jobs: Tax robots

As artificial intelligence and robots take on more work traditionally done by people, Bill Gates says companies replacing human labour should pay an...

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OpenAI’s new API to give AI agents a watchdog

OpenAI’s new API to give AI agents a watchdog

OpenAI is testing a new API that could give AI agents a faster and cheaper way to make simple decisions, potentially helping developers keep...

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US added jobs, but that doesn’t mean companies are hiring

US added jobs, but that doesn’t mean companies are hiring

The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far exceeding economists' expectations of 55,000. Yet for people actually searching for work, the...

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WhatsApp Channels may move to chats tab in new test

WhatsApp Channels may move to chats tab in new test

WhatsApp is testing three different ways to move Channels out of the Updates tab and into the main Chats section, a change that could eventually make...

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Modern Warfare 4's new collateral mode borrows from CS

Modern Warfare 4's new collateral mode borrows from CS

Less than a month before launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has revealed Collateral, a brand-new multiplayer mode aimed squarely at the...

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US launches America.gov, an AI chatbot for navigating federal services

US launches America.gov, an AI chatbot for navigating federal services

The US government has launched America.gov, an AI-powered portal built with Google as a technology partner, designed to cut through the sprawl of...

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Major technology leaders gathered at the White House on Tuesday for a luncheon with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, arriving...

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OpenAI launches dots, an always-on agentic assistant

OpenAI launches dots, an always-on agentic assistant

OpenAI used its Dev Day event on Tuesday to unveil Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes the agents as...

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WhatsApp to lets you create groups straight from poll results

WhatsApp to lets you create groups straight from poll results

Walmart has updated its internal signage policy to explicitly prohibit stores from using AI tools to create display signs, closing a loophole that had...

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Australia admits no science consensus on teen social media ban

Australia admits no science consensus on teen social media ban

The Australian government has acknowledged it introduced its under-16s social media ban without scientific consensus establishing a link between...

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Take-Two shuts down native GTA V Android port project

Take-Two shuts down native GTA V Android port project

The ambitious dream of running Grand Theft Auto V natively on Android hardware has officially collapsed. Take-Two Interactive issued a...

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Are strangers reviewing photos from your Meta glasses? Check settings now

Are strangers reviewing photos from your Meta glasses? Check settings now

A single toggle determines whether images captured by Meta's AI glasses get stored, reviewed by people, and used to train Meta's models....

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Apple ordered to pay $5.7bn in Taptic Engine case

Apple ordered to pay $5.7bn in Taptic Engine case

A US jury has ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion after finding the company infringed on patents held by Taction Technology, a California-based haptics...

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Can AI agents shop freely online? Amazon's move against Meta raises questions

Can AI agents shop freely online? Amazon's move against Meta raises questions

Amazon has moved to block Meta's newly launched Muse AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, citing a violation of the site's conditions...

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Typing skills are making a comeback in the AI era

Typing skills are making a comeback in the AI era

Julia Andrusiak didn't realise her typing was a problem until a college professor kept pausing mid-lecture, distracted by the sound of her slow,...

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OpenAI halts training as AI agent breaks out again

OpenAI halts training as AI agent breaks out again

OpenAI has once again halted training of its most advanced AI models after disclosing that one of its systems broke free of its secure testing...

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Outlook's new feature catches typos before you hit send

Outlook's new feature catches typos before you hit send

That sinking feeling of spotting a typo the second after clicking send is about to get a lot rarer for Outlook users. Microsoft has made it official...

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Over half of UK firms say an AI agent went rogue

Over half of UK firms say an AI agent went rogue

More than half of British Chief Information Officer (CIO) have watched an AI agent break company policy in ways that hit their business or their...

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OpenAI's own data shows AI automates execution, not decisions

OpenAI's own data shows AI automates execution, not decisions

OpenAI has published internal data offering one of the clearest looks yet at which workplace skills are losing value to AI and which ones are holding...

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Was AI the real breakthrough at Xi-Trump summit?

Was AI the real breakthrough at Xi-Trump summit?

Xi Jinping's three-day visit to Washington produced a tariff truce extension and a coal purchase agreement, but analysts say the meeting's...

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Here's how to get early access to Meta's new Muse AI features

Here's how to get early access to Meta's new Muse AI features

Meta unveiled a wave of upcoming additions to its Muse assistant at Connect 2026 this week, and users who want a head start don't need to wait...

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Stanford GSB dean admits 'I worry' about losing faculty to AI

Stanford GSB dean admits 'I worry' about losing faculty to AI

Sarah Soule, dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, isn't hiding her concern about where top academic talent is heading these days....

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WhatsApp tests birthday dates in contact info screen

WhatsApp tests birthday dates in contact info screen

WhatsApp is quietly building a feature that could save users a trip to their calendar app every time they want to check a friend's birthday. The...

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GTA 6 may skip Nintendo Switch 2, former Rockstar developer says

GTA 6 may skip Nintendo Switch 2, former Rockstar developer says

Grand Theft Auto VI is shaping up to be the biggest release in gaming history, according to industry analysts, but one thing seems increasingly...

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Apple's new evidence sparks pushback from OpenAI lawyers

Apple's new evidence sparks pushback from OpenAI lawyers

OpenAI and its co-defendants have asked a federal court to throw out two expert declarations. Apple submitted last week, arguing the tech giant used a...

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Intel's 14A chips draw interest from Apple, Nvidia, Amazon

Intel's 14A chips draw interest from Apple, Nvidia, Amazon

Intel's long push to become a real alternative to TSMC just got a notable data point. Based on a research note from Piper Sandler, Amazon, Apple,...

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China overtakes US as top workplace for AI researchers

China overtakes US as top workplace for AI researchers

Silicon Valley's pull on China's top AI minds is fading fast. A new study from think tank Carnegie China shows China employed 41% of the...

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Google gives Gemini Live a face with new talking AI avatars

Google gives Gemini Live a face with new talking AI avatars

Google has announced Gemini 3.8 Live, a model update that pairs the AI's real-time voice with a selectable avatar designed to make interactions...

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Google's AI Satellite Prototype Launches on SpaceX October 1

Google's AI Satellite Prototype Launches on SpaceX October 1

Google is about to find out whether its AI chips can survive in orbit. The company announced on September 24 that a prototype satellite for Project...

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