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Thousands of products crowded the halls of IFA 2026, one of the world’s largest consumer technology shows. Most promised to make our lives easier, healthier or more connected. A few appeared to receive a slightly different assignment — make something so strange that even a room full of jaded tech
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Ineffable Intelligence has handed the title of cofounder to six people who did not found it. Four come from Google DeepMind, one from InstaDeep, and one from the Seattle venture firm that wrote the company’s first cheque. The London startup is ten months old, has no product, and carries
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The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had already been reviewed and cleared by a
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Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particular chips could break its rules. Faris Mokhtar, Mackenzie Hawkins and Niki Koswanage
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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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The Flipper Zero helped popularize the idea of a pocket-sized electronics multitool, combining several tools that hardware hackers and security researchers might otherwise carry separately. But there is a lot more that can be squeezed into a handheld device, especially if you are willing to sacrifice a little pocket space.
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* Think tank Ceres found power generation for data centers in seven states withdraws 3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater a year, or 10.4 million acre-feet * The figure might be a bit overstated, as it counts withdrawals, including hydropower water returned to the river immediately * 78% of electricity in those
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Whenever a new AI model is released in a cut-down form because it is too powerful, or one transgresses its sandbox and performs an unexpected cyber hack on a company’s website, we tend to see jokes made about Skynet or HAL 9000 becoming a reality. But science fiction didn’
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* Google's contrail mitigation tech is expanding to a new region * It uses AI to get planes to avoid cold, humid air * Contrails account for a third of aviation's impact on the climate Following similar projects across US airspace and the North Atlantic ocean, Google is partnering
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Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its business groups and councils. It sent
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Jensen Huang said it in four words. “AGI has arrived,” the Nvidia chief executive wrote on X late on Sunday, congratulating OpenAI on GPT-6 Astra. By Monday morning the post had passed 10 million views. The rest of the post is the part worth reading. Huang wrote that OpenAI trained
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Uforce, the London-based drone company built from Ukrainian battlefield manufacturers, is in talks to raise about $500m at a valuation of around $5bn, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Valor Equity Partners, the firm run by SpaceX board member Antonio Gracias, would lead the round. Yazhou Sun and Rebecca Torrence cited people
