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OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries, in its largest expansion of the ad business so far. The rollout starts next week, the company said in a blog post. The list runs from Germany, France, Spain and Italy to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Austria,
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Muon Space has raised $250m in a round backed by Google and Salesforce, according to their announcement. It is the largest cheque yet written to a company whose best-known product is a constellation that watches for wildfires. The rise had been visible for a while. Axios reported in June that
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An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle Point Credit Management is providing the loan, Bloomberg reported. The loan is one slice of
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Navi, the Indian fintech founded by the Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100mn from the investor Prosus. It is the first outside institutional funding for the eight-year-old company, TechCrunch reported. Navi is preparing to go public. The deal values Navi at about $1.3bn, according to people familiar with
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Comcast is turning tens of millions of its home routers into motion detectors. The feature, called WiFi Motion, uses a home’s own WiFi signal to sense movement, without any cameras. It is part of a new service called Xfinity Shield, which the company began rolling out on 18 August.
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OpenAI has finally put a date on its stock market debut. The company “will be a public company in 2027,” or sooner if its business keeps growing fast, chief financial officer Sarah Friar told staff at an all-hands meeting. CNBC reported the comments, citing two people familiar with them. Friar
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Munich Re has agreed to buy At-Bay, a cyber-insurance startup, for $575mn. The deal values the company at less than half what it was worth in 2021. The German insurance group announced the acquisition on Wednesday, in a statement. The price is a reset. At-Bay was valued at $1.35bn
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OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the position on Wednesday in a post titled “Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models”. In it, it previewed Private Safety Processing. The system looks for
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A threat actor has conducted a mass-hacking campaign against Dahua IP cameras, compromising over 14,000 of them across Ukraine and Russia, Hunt.io reports. The activity, referred to as Operation CameraSwarm, occurred between June 17 and July 22. It initially involved global scanning across Russian, Mexican, and Vietnamese ISP
