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A new "Workspace Check-in" feature rolled out last month. Microsoft's new Workplace Check-in feature for Teams has officially rolled out, making it possible to automatically update an employee's work location using Wi-Fi or desk peripheral connections. It may be off by default, requiring admin
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It follows reports of 100,000 jobs being under threat at the German automaker. Tobias Arhelger/Shutterstock Volkswagen is planning to cut its model line-up in half, as part of Europe's largest automaker's huge efficiency overhaul. The Volkswagen Group's future plans were outlined in
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Every night in London Björn Ulvaeus and his three band members perform their biggest hits from ABBA’s back catalog. Or rather an AI-created version of the Swedish super-group does. The ‘ABBAtars’ on stage at ABBA Voyage are created through a powerful combination of motion-stop technology and Machine Learning and,
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Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium has extended its total funding to $100 million, adding new investors including NVIDIA just seven months after emerging from stealth. The company said the additional capital will be used to accelerate AI research, expand product development, strengthen its international presence, and establish a new office
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OpenAI has expanded its enterprise AI strategy with the launch of GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, while announcing that its latest flagship model will become the default AI model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot. The move deepens OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft and brings GPT-5.6 to productivity applications including
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* Broadcasters in France, Spain have submitted a formal complaint to FIFA * Rightsholders labeled the partnership with ExpressVPN as "disastrous" * ExpressVPN previously refused to implement sweeping anti-piracy blocking FIFA’s decision to partner with ExpressVPN for the 2026 World Cup has sparked outrage among top European football broadcasters. La
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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The Centre’s decision to rationalise customs duties on capital equipment and critical inputs used in lithium-ion battery cells, display assemblies and wireless charging modules marks another step in India’s attempt to move its electronics manufacturing ambitions beyond final-product assembly and towards a stronger domestic component ecosystem. The move
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering to pay
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Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach some of America’
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Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as “critical third parties” to its financial system, as Reuters first reported. The designation takes
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Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the moment
