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When Raylo launched in 2019, it was with a mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. It developed an electronics subscription service, which lets consumers access the latest tech products without a hefty upfront fee, and the option to return a device so it can be re-furbed and
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After a disaster like a landslide, an earthquake, or a major fire, rescue workers have to locate survivors as soon as possible, and they are increasingly using drones for this critical task—especially ultra-compact drones that can fit into the crevices of a collapsed structure. There are, however, some serious
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Almost nine years ago, a tanned, relatively well-rested-looking CEO named Elon Musk announced that his electric car company would make a new sports car, the Tesla Roadster 2. It would be “the fastest sports car ever made, period,” Musk said on stage in 2017. “The point of doing this is
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There isn't a textbook for setting up an open source foundation to govern a technology that is younger than most of its member companies' product teams. The AAIF is the Linux Foundation body that hosts the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and the other open source
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On August 14, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-27B, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to be small enough to run on a laptop. Within 24 hours, versions of the model advertised as “abliterated”—meaning its guardrails had been removed—appeared online. Three days later, a neo-Nazi known
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* Cambridge Audio unveils new Spira turntable * Mid-range price tag; on sale immediately * Range of connection options, but nothing too complex If you've never used a record player before, they can seem quite complicated, which is why many of the best turntables are entry-level options targeted at relative novices
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HCLTech recently won a large infrastructure services contract with M Group, a company that provides critical infrastructure services in the UK and Ireland. M Group is responsible for managing systems in sectors such as water, energy, transport, defence, technology and communications and so has a wide infrastructure footprint. The deal
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ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales guidance and its shares rose 2.8%. ASML says it will not be able to
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Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to rehear
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Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is
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The hardest part of retail AI may soon be the part nobody puts in the demo. A model can recommend a markdown, predict a stockout, adjust a picking route or identify a pattern in store traffic in milliseconds. But a retailer only gets value when that decision becomes an accurate
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