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I’m having deja vu after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event, which introduced the company’s first-ever folding phone, the iPhone Duo. It’s on two levels: Back in 2020, Microsoft introduced its take on a folding phone, also called the Duo. I remember talking about it with Panos
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Save $80: Cleaning your own floors should be a thing of the past, and with Roborock’s Q7 M5 robot vacuum and mop $80 off right now at Amazon, it soon will be. This model normally sells for around $230, so this is an $80 discount. But be warned, Amazon
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London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies manage security and compliance. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the round, the company said in its funding announcement on 9 September. FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First also invested. John
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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 September. They said French President Emmanuel Macron announced
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“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, the
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Oracle told investors this week that it is sitting on $664bn of work it has agreed to do and has not yet done. Accountants call this remaining performance obligations, which is a dense way of saying that customers have signed contracts, the money is promised, and Oracle now has to
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Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company published the model on 10 September as an
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The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, roughly 26 square kilometres of computing in
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Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint was filed on 9 September in the circuit court for
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US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have concerns that if we don’
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Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the partnership with OpenAI in a blog post on 10 September. Select US advertisers are already testing it in a pilot. Advertisers who plan and run campaigns with Amazon Ads can now extend them
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Winners & losers: Nobody likes seeing companies laying off people, except maybe their shareholders, but CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the roughly 3,300 people Uber let go of last week will be a good
