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The Register ·
The Department of Justice has charged an OpenAI engineer with attempting to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an exec conference room. Investigators claim company security staff found a second...
TNW ·
Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on surplus GPU capacity pushing compute prices down late this...
TNW ·
Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, Google said today. The offer comes from its AI lab, Google DeepMind, and its cloud arm, Google...
Tech.eu ·
Nvidia is investing in four French startups, as well as making a $250m compute donation to UK AI safety and research, as it looks to underscore its commitment to the European tech ecosystem. Nvidia is making new investments in French...
The Register ·
AI services are unlikely to deliver enough revenue to cover the expected capital expenditure going into IT infrastructure between now and 2030, and it looks like neocloud operators will largely bow out or be bought out. This is the...
TNW ·
Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to...
TNW ·
Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety....
The Register · · Medium severity
The UK government is pushing ahead with its AI ambitions yet is dragging its feet on replacing aging IT systems that leave departments vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a damning assessment from Parliament's spending watchdog....
Tech.eu ·
US-European founded startup VitVio is bringing its AI-powered surgical operating system, Vetro, to Poland for the first time through a new partnership with the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk (UCK), one of the country's largest...
TNW ·
ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales guidance and its shares rose 2.8%. ASML says it will not be...
The Register ·
I increasingly hear these questions about AI from people who feel a gritty sense of being unpleasantly overstimulated – like a three-year-old allowed to stay awake too long and now unable to sleep. That feeling has become worse since...
Tech.eu ·
UK-based preventative health startup Stride has raised £4.6 million in seed funding to further develop its diagnostics-driven health platform and support international expansion. The round includes investment from Arāya Ventures, Morgan...
TNW ·
Tallinn startup Cachet, which sells insurance to ride-hailing, scooter, and gig-work apps, has closed a funding round led by Spintop Ventures. The deal raises its total capital to about €11 million. Moreover, Truffle Capital and...
IT Pro ·
Mark Samuels is a freelance writer specializing in business and technology. For the past two decades, he has produced extensive work on subjects such as the adoption of technology by C-suite executives. At ITPro, Mark has provided...
IT Pro ·
Fake IT worker schemes are ramping up: How to manage the threat
IT Pro ·
Dave is an IT consultant and freelance journalist specialising in hands-on reviews of computer networking products covering all market sectors from small businesses to enterprises. Founder of Binary Testing Ltd – the UK’s premier...
Electronics Weekly ·
Apple made a statement yesterday that it is still in the home electronics market. It launched a new $200 HomePod smart speaker (pictured above) and a $299 HomeView hub (pictured […] The post Apple bids for home electronics market...
Electronics Weekly ·
The overall chip market continues to show treble-digit monthly annualised growth rates, more than twice as large as the industry’s two previous record highs in June 2000 (59.3 percent) and […] The post This Time It’s Different appeared...
Electronics Weekly · · Medium severity
The jury in the Qualcomm vs Arm case found Arm in breach of its architectural license agreement (ALA) with Qualcomm, and awarded Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages. The jury […] The post Qualcomm wins Arm case – awarded $2 in damages...
Electronics Weekly ·
Siemens’ Tessent Silicon Executable software is designed to translate test patterns and apply them directly onto high-speed interfaces and protocols. Test provider partners will embed the Tessent software within automated […] The post...
Tech.eu ·
Polish education platform Coding Giants has secured up to €6 million in venture debt financing from Orbit Capital to support its international expansion. Founded eight years ago, Coding Giants provides technology education for children...
Tech.eu ·
London-based startup Affinity Labs has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its portfolio of creator-led software brands and further develop its AI-powered product development technology. The round was led by Fuel Ventures ,...
The Register · · High severity
Tim Beasley, a senior incident response consultant at Semperis, was investigating a cyberattack involving Russia’s Midnight Blizzard when a package containing nesting dolls and other regional gifts showed up on his doorstep. At the...
Electronics Weekly ·
Thanks to IPNest for this one – the top ten semiconductor IP vendors: Arm. Alphawave Semi Imagination Technologies Rambus VeriSilicon CEva Arteris Silicon Creations The post Top Ten IP Semiconductor Suppliers appeared first on...
The Register ·
If you use OpenAI's dot, don't be surprised if it consumes a lot of tokens on its own. According to AI agent security and governance outfit Geordie, one dot agent produced 155 separate activity sequences and consumed more than 300,000...
The Register ·
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has killed many of the industry partnerships it used to enhance security, but don't tell the organization's acting director. Speaking on Tuesday at a virtual public sector...
The Register ·
Anthropic's Claude models have been emitting so much code that the company's coding infrastructure hasn't been able to keep up. It's a symptom of the AI coding imperative and all-you-can-eat inference. Microsoft's GitHub in April...
Tech.eu ·
Today marks the launch of the Refugee Venture Fund (RVF), a new UK venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to investing in high-growth businesses founded by refugees. Launching with £300,000 in initial capital, with plans to increase...
TNW ·
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or...
TNW ·
Customer Contact Week Europe 2026 brought together around 700 attendees and 50 exhibitors over three days to talk about the future of customer contact. As the industry’s flagship event in Europe, it carried a certain energy that is hard...
TNW ·
Cloud security spent a decade learning to see everything. Half of what it found is still open. Tamnoon’s CEO says the next decade belongs to machines that know when not to act, and as of today she is publishing what hers refused.
TNW ·
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta committed as much as $200B to AI infrastructure before anyone could tell him it would work, with his chief AI officer saying it was not clear at all. Meta’s free cash flow fell 91% in the second quarter. Mark...
The Register ·
Nothing sells AI products as well as fear. Using new research, Anthropic claims that self-replicating AI worms could be just months away from spreading across vulnerable IoT devices, which would be a problem if it came true. The...
The Register ·
An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide through an online form run by the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). The tip, filed July 18 through PhillyUnsolvedMurders[.]com by “someone who might have...
The Register ·
In an effort to give its employees better access to GPU resources for inference tasks, Apple has rounded up its Minions, not the animated yellow creatures, but a distributed system that puts idle GPUs across its Macs to work on AI...
TNW ·
Google has released Gemini 4 Argon globally to paying users, in the Gemini app, in Search and through the API. The $2 and $10 per million token prices are a launch discount against standard rates of $4 and $20. Google has released...
TNW ·
Europe is falling behind the US on AI use at work, and the main reason is not technology, according to a new report.The report from Sifted, sponsored by London Business School, says Europe has an organisational gap rather than a tech...
IT Security Guru ·
Check Point Research has disclosed two high-risk vulnerabilities in LiteLLM, the open-source gateway that sits between enterprise applications and AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The flaws could allow a user with...
TNW ·
Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software. Google...
TNW ·
Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in...
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