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In recent years, there has been a broader trend in Silicon Valley of tech companies diverging from conventional governance norms, making it harder for shareholders and the public to hold them to account. Anthropic and OpenAI, the two major AI labs, have both designed unusual company structures, with self-appointed “guardians”
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Making a connection Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice. On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also
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TL;DR G42 executives have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies to secure chip access past April 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company already stripped out Huawei equipment for Microsoft’s $1.5bn in 2024 and built US-specified monitoring into its own data centres this February.
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TL;DR John Ternus runs his first Apple event on 9 September, days after replacing Tim Cook. Bloomberg reports it opens the biggest run of device releases in Apple’s history, from a foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook. The argument here is that a hardware engineer is answering a
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TL;DR Moonshot AI is weighing a Hong Kong listing of up to $5bn as soon as this year, Bloomberg reports, having filed confidentially and added Bank of America alongside CICC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Zhipu and MiniMax already listed in Hong Kong in January, ahead of OpenAI and
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TL;DR Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September with a licensed driver in every car. The reason is the legal route they chose: TfL licensed the vehicles as private hire vehicles, which legally requires a human in the driver’s seat, rather than through
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This week, Nvidia released a free tool called Personal AI Router (PAIR) that connects unused computers on your home network to create a personal AI data center. The software is currently in public beta and is for users who run local AI agents and LLMs. PAIR finds compatible devices using
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Netmore Group has added Kinéis satellite connectivity to its LPWAN network to support hybrid terrestrial and orbital IoT operations. The integration provides single-platform management for customers across the utilities, water, infrastructure, and smart city sectors. Kinéis operates a sovereign European constellation of 25 satellites dedicated to IoT and Automatic Identification
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IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin, and while the event officially opens to the public today, press events have been going on already and giving us a peek behind the curtain at the TVs, wearables, smart home gear and more making their debut. Our Picks Bottom Line The Omni E35
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A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German wiki forum in order to collaborate on evaluations. They appear to have worked together for over a month without OpenAI’s knowledge. A spokesperson for the frontier lab would not say whether
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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help
