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As gas prices stay stubbornly high across the country, President Donald Trump mused this week about suspending the fuel tax US consumers pay. The idea is also picking up steam in Congress, with Democratic and Republican lawmakers pushing for a gas tax holiday. But experts tell WIRED that it’s
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Barclays Climate Ventures and Two Seas Capital led the British precision-liquid-cooling company’s Series B, with existing backers ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, Edinv, and British Patient Capital all returning Iceotope, the British precision-liquid-cooling company, has closed a $26 million Series B round to expand its product line and patent portfolio
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The company dropped its preconditions on Friday. The NSEU said it would hear new offers from 7 June, three days after the planned 18-day walkout ends. Samsung Electronics asked its largest union on Friday to come back to the bargaining table without conditions. The union said yes, eventually. Talks could
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The Singapore-controlled, Tata-minority data-centre operator has invited banks to pitch this month. The listing would slot in ahead of Sify and Yotta in India’s first wave of pure data-centre IPOs. STT Global Data Centres India is preparing an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise up to $500m,
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A federal judge in San Francisco wanted more detail on lawyers’ fees and lead-plaintiff payments before signing off on what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history. A federal judge in San Francisco declined on Thursday to give final approval to Anthropic’s proposed $1.5bn settlement with
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The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by Euan Blair, said on Friday it had raised $70m in primary funding led by Schroders Capital,
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Pershing Square has taken a new position in Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed in a 13F filing later on Friday. The stock is down roughly 16% year-to-date. Bill Ackman has bought Microsoft. Pershing Square’s chief executive said on X on Friday morning that the fund had taken
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* Honor's innovative Robot Phone now has a release window * It's set to launch in Q3 (July-September) of this year * It has also been shown off at Cannes to demonstrate its filmmaking capabilities Honor’s Robot Phone last made an appearance at MWC 2026, but back then,
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Eighty percent of AI projects fail to deliver their intended business value, and, according to an MIT study in 2025, 95% of generative AI pilots generated zero measurable return. When initiatives stall, the instinct is to blame the model. It is the wrong diagnosis, and an expensive one at that.
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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OpenAI has disclosed the impact of the recent TanStack supply chain attack, warning that credential material was exfiltrated from internal source code repositories. The open source web application development stack TanStack was hit on May 11, when the TeamPCP hacking group exploited security weaknesses in the package publishing process to
