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TL;DR OpenAI and Anthropic have spent the past two weeks publishing papers warning that frontier AI is advancing faster than regulation can keep up. In the same stretch, both released their most powerful models yet, offered free developer tools to drive adoption, and filed confidential S-1 paperwork to go
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TL;DR South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission fined Coupang a record 624.7 billion won ($409 million) over a data breach that exposed roughly 33.7 million customer accounts. The penalty, the largest in South Korean history, has deepened a diplomatic rift between Seoul and Washington. South Korea’
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OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a user’s behalf at, in principle, any of the more than 175 million merchant locations
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The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values. The case,
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A German startup wants to rebuild online commerce for shoppers who are not human. ShopAgentic has raised a €1.9mn pre-seed to do it. May Ventures and Greenfield Capital co-led the oversubscribed round. What ShopAgentic is building ShopAgentic calls itself a “native agentic commerce system”. It runs a squad of
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Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Class SUV and Sprinter van. Mercedes calls the defence sector “a strategic growth field”. The
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End to end encryption (E2EE) has become synonymous with secure communications. For many organizations, it is treated as the foundation upon which trust is built. That mindset is now being challenged. Across government and critical infrastructure sectors, recent intelligence warnings and real world compromises have exposed a fundamental misconception. Encryption
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Sponsor Posts Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access! Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale
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Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary offering robotaxi rides in 11 US metros right now, says it’s ready for the FIFA World Cup. Match attendees can catch driverless rides to six of the 16 North American venues: stadiums in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The
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PUBLIC SECTOR Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow National Savings & Investments (NS&I) is looking for a new chief executive to take charge of the state-backed savings institution as it attempts to steer a troubled £3 billion
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Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection Great Marlow School in Buckinghamshire, England, has entered its second day of a shutdown following "a suspected malware incident." Only students sitting their GCSE and A-level exams – those in
