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A Shahed attack drone costs tens of thousands of euros. The missiles traditionally fired to shoot one down can cost a million or more. A French startup has raised €50mn to fix that maths. Alta Ares, a Paris-based defence-technology company founded in 2024, said on Tuesday it had closed a
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Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, founder of Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest software-focused
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The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an iPhone’s memory, yet runs on the device anyway. In a technical
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The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this week, telling Times Radio that “the current health secretary is
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TL;DR AT&T’s finance organization is building agentic AI workflows using LangGraph to automate manual journal entry preparation under SOX controls. The architecture separates repeatable preparation from human judgment through finance-owned playbooks, node-level audit evidence, and explicit approval boundaries. Generative AI has already changed how companies draft,
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Private equity buys companies, strips out costs, and flips them. A two-year-old startup called Beacon has raised hundreds of millions to do almost the opposite, and to let AI do the heavy lifting. Beacon, an “AI-native” holding company based in Toronto and San Francisco, said on Tuesday it had raised
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A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, not its software vendors. Who is backing Zaro The angel list is senior for such an early round. Hugging Face co-founder
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TL;DR Anthropic says Mythos is too dangerous for public release but has expanded access to 200 organisations across 15 countries. Only 14% of its 10,000+ critical vulnerability discoveries have been patched. Its claims have not been independently verified. Anthropic has said its Mythos model is so good at
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Klarna is launching high-yield savings accounts in the United States with an annual percentage yield starting at 3.28%. The accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with WebBank and are designed to let existing Klarna spending customers hold savings within the same platform. “The average American earns less than 0.
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Geekom, a brand typically known for its ultra-compact mini PCs, has launched its first high-performance business laptop, the GeekBook M16. Priced to disrupt the entry-level side of the market, this 16-incher sports processing power and massive battery capacity that don't scream budget. Impressively, the GeekBook M16 comes standard
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Announced Monday at Apple's WWDC keynote, iOS 27 focuses on speed, stability, and efficiency over flashy design changes. Apple says the software will make everyday tasks faster across the same range of devices that already run iOS 26, which means many older iPhones, as far as iPhone 11,
