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AI data centres force cities to rethink power and water
Local planners are weighing jobs, grid strain, and environmental promises as data centres expand.
Cyber teams race to patch hospital systems after new warning
Health providers are reviewing backups and access rules after researchers disclosed a serious flaw.
Apple's new chip partnership signals shift away from Intel supply chain
The agreement with a Taiwan-based manufacturer marks a strategic pivot that analysts say could reshape the sector.
The phone feature designed to stop endless scrolling
A new generation of screen controls tries to make attention feel measurable, visible, and easier to protect.
Quantum chip claim puts reliability back in focus
Researchers say the hard part is no longer making qubits, but proving they can keep working at scale.
Meta opens its largest AI research lab outside the US in London
The new facility will focus on large language models and safety research, with 500 roles to be filled by year end.
Governments race to regulate deepfakes before election season
Several democracies are fast-tracking legislation as AI-generated political videos proliferate on social platforms.
Inside the race to build quantum computers that actually work
The billion-dollar push for fault-tolerant machines is moving from theory toward engineering reality.
Apple Vision Pro 2 drops price as spatial computing targets the mainstream
The undersea cables that carry 95% of the world's internet traffic
OpenAI releases open-weight model in surprise policy reversal
Why your next car will be more software than machine
Google faces record antitrust fine over search dominance in Europe
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Inside the semiconductor plants reshaping the global chip map
New fabs in Arizona, Dresden, and Osaka are altering decades of Asian dominance in advanced chip production.
The scientists trying to make the internet use less energy
Data centres now consume more electricity than some countries. A generation of engineers is working to change that.
How AI is being used to detect early-stage cancers that doctors miss
Machine learning tools trained on millions of scans are now outperforming radiologists on specific tumour types in clinical trials.
Elon Musk's Grok challenges ChatGPT with free access to all users
xAI's decision to remove the paywall is a direct move to capture market share from OpenAI and Google's Gemini.
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra GPU with 50% memory bandwidth leap
SemiconductorsMeta releases Llama 4 with multimodal reasoning and 128k context window
AIApple fined €2.4bn by EU over App Store payment restrictions
RegulationMicrosoft cuts Azure AI inference pricing by 40% to pressure rivals
AISpaceX Starship completes first fully successful orbital flight and recovery
SpaceTikTok faces US federal lawsuit over children's data harvesting
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X raises premium subscription price and removes legacy verification tiers
The social platform's restructured pricing collapses three subscription levels into one, ending discounted rates that had been grandfathered in since the 2022 acquisition.
USB 4 Gen 4 becomes industry standard as ports consolidate across device categories
The updated specification doubles bandwidth to 120Gbps and is already designed into flagship laptops, tablets and external GPU enclosures shipping this autumn.
Samsung Galaxy AI real-time translation extends to 16 new languages
The on-device language model update arrives over the air and covers languages including Swahili, Tamil, and Ukrainian without requiring an internet connection.
DeepMind AlphaFold update predicts protein-drug interactions at clinical accuracy
The new model goes beyond structure prediction to simulate how candidate drug molecules bind to proteins, potentially cutting early-stage drug discovery time by years.
EU AI Act high-risk provisions take effect, forcing compliance reviews at hundreds of firms
Companies deploying AI in hiring, credit scoring, and medical triage must now submit conformity assessments to national regulators or face fines of up to 3% of global revenue.
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Intel 18A process node beats TSMC 2nm on power efficiency in independent tests
Third-party benchmarks published by Anandtech show Intel's in-house fabrication has closed the gap with Taiwan's leading foundry, raising questions about outsourcing strategies.
AWS launches dedicated region for healthcare data in the Middle East
The new availability zone in Riyadh is certified to store protected health information under Saudi and UAE regulatory frameworks, targeting hospitals and insurers.
Cloudflare blocks record 5.6 terabit DDoS attack against financial services client
The volumetric attack, believed to originate from a compromised IoT botnet, lasted eleven minutes and was mitigated automatically with no service disruption.
Anthropic raises $3bn Series E at $61bn valuation to fund model training
The funding round, led by Google and a consortium of sovereign wealth funds, will finance development of the next Claude generation and expanded safety research.
Tesla Full Self-Driving receives Level 3 conditional approval in California
The certification permits hands-free highway driving at up to 65 mph in defined conditions, though drivers must remain ready to take control within four seconds.
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The constellation of four satellites enables encrypted communications between Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen that are theoretically immune to interception by classical computers.
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GitHub Copilot adds autonomous pull request creation for bug fixes
The feature, rolling out to enterprise accounts, allows the AI assistant to identify failing tests, write a fix, open a pull request, and request a review without developer input.
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Apple Watch irregular heartbeat detection validated in 500,000-patient clinical study
The largest trial of wearable cardiac monitoring found the device identified previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation in 2.1% of participants, prompting treatment in most cases.
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Palantir wins $1.2bn US Army contract for AI-powered battlefield logistics
The deal covers deployment of the company's Maven Smart System to coordinate real-time supply chain management and predictive maintenance across forward operating bases.
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Open-source Mistral model outperforms GPT-5 on code generation benchmarks
The French AI lab's latest release, trained on a curated mix of public and licensed code repositories, scored higher than OpenAI's flagship on HumanEval and SWE-bench.
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