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TNW ·
The European Commission has accepted Temu’s plan to improve its compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), five months after fining the online marketplace €200 million over its failure to properly assess the risk of illegal...
TNW ·
Replit moved most of its AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI in recent months after OpenAI offered a discount of more than 30%, The Information reported on Saturday. The contract is worth over $100M a year, a person familiar with the...
TNW ·
Artificial intelligence has delivered “zero financial payoff” to corporate America outside the tech sector. That is the finding of Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, in a note on Saturday. Slok compared the...
The Register ·
AI has yet to deliver any financial payoff to US businesses outside of the tech sector, according to investment biz Apollo Global Management. The global asset firm made the claim in a posting to its Daily Spark blog that features...
TNW ·
Amazon has pledged 30,000 entry-level jobs in the UK by 2030 for young people from the areas with the fewest opportunities. The roles start at £15.10 an hour, more than £31,000 a year pro rata, and need no CV or work experience, Amazon...
TNW ·
American Express is cutting about 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336M restructuring charge. Chief executive Stephen Squeri told analysts about the cuts on Friday, CNBC’s Hugh Son reported. The company had almost 77,000...
The Register ·
We've spent the past several decades using duct tape, string, and chewing gum to chain the world's computers together into this thing we call the internet, so there's really no good reason to be surprised that most of it is full of...
TNW ·
Verizon raised its forecasts for 2026 on Monday after a strong quarter for new phone customers. It also announced a deal worth more than $2bn with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support AI workloads. Under the AWS agreement, Verizon will...
TNW ·
Goldman Sachs is putting $500M into the next phase of its 10,000 Small Businesses programme, including a new AI institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. At the launch, its chief executive said there is very little that...
TNW ·
Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield,...
Tech.eu ·
As part of the UK’s National AI Biosecurity Initiative, the government is establishing the AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL). The AI Biosecurity Lab will be the world’s first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. Backed by £100 million of...
TNW ·
San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with simulations of real tasks, aiming to save senior engineers’...
Electronics Weekly ·
A new family of heat shock resistors from KOA Speer Electronics feature a metal glaze resistance film to provide improved high heat and weather resistance. The RK73B-AT resistors also feature […] The post KOA Speer heat shock resistors...
TNW ·
Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also give Europe a “big trade balance problem”, he said on 20...
The Register ·
History is littered with the ruins of failed memory technologies. But former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger believes an emerging memory tech developed by researchers at Georgia Tech using oxide semiconductors may be the exception to the rule....
TNW ·
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Socialist and Green MEPs called for a new AI liability act.
TNW ·
Meta launched two share offerings worth about $35bn on Monday, as it looks for new ways to pay for its growing spending on AI. The larger offering is $22.5bn of Class A common stock sold through forward sale agreements. Under these...
The Register ·
Apple's iPhone Duo scores higher than its foldable rivals for repairability, but don't let dust get into its delicate workings. iFixit teardown crew put a spudger and screwdriver to Apple's flagship phone and reached a provisional...
TNW · · Medium severity
PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new...
The Register ·
The UK government is throwing £130 million at AI-powered cyber defenses, including plans to deploy autonomous AI agents across critical infrastructure to hunt down security flaws before attackers get there first. The money is part of a...
TNW ·
Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP)...
Electronics Weekly ·
What caught our eye this last week? The launch of the Apprenticeship Talent Bridge, the Flapping Airplanes startup story, and Iceye continuing to expand its SAR satellite constellation... Apprenticeships, Flapping Airplanes, SAR...
Electronics Weekly ·
CScale, a Palo Alto startup for optical interconnects, has exited stealth mode with the announcement of $145 million in Series C funding. Nvidia and Intel Capital were among the investors. […] The post CScale exits Stealth with $145m...
Tech.eu ·
The Tech.eu Q3 2026 Report reveals that European tech companies raised €27.8 billion across 732 deals during the third quarter of 2026, up from €21 billion in Q3 2025 and €11 billion in Q3 2024. The UK led European funding with €12...
IT Pro ·
AI is crucial to infrastructure and IT operations but only if it's done right, Gartner report says
TNW ·
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page...
TNW ·
Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day. The startup released...
TNW ·
SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off...
TNW ·
Instacart is exploring a sale and has held at least preliminary talks with DoorDash and Uber. Lessin and Cory Weinberg reported this for The Information on 23 October, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery company...
The Register ·
European open source database service provider Aiven says it has saved 80 percent of its AI token costs internally by moving to open-weight models and is building a gateway to help devs swap models in and out as required. The...
Tech.eu ·
Medtech startup CHD (Connected Health Development) has received approximately €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to develop its digital solutions for remote maternal and fetal monitoring. The company's technology is designed to...
TNW ·
Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect...
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...
The Register ·
The technical details of web server stacks are worth learning about. Preferably not from the TV news. Last week, knowing about PHP was a niche professional interest.
TNW ·
SpaceX wants access to at least 80,000 US cell sites for its planned mobile network. Kelcee Griffis reported this for Bloomberg on 22 October. The company is in talks with at least one big tower owner, Crown Castle, Bloomberg said,...
TNW ·
Tata Communications plans to spend close to $450M on about 10,000km of new long-distance fibre across India. The network will connect the country’s AI data-centre hubs, Reuters reported on Monday. The Mumbai-based company, which sells...
TNW ·
Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing...
TNW ·
London-based Nous has raised $17m to take its household AI agent outside the UK and add new features. Heartcore Capital and existing seed backer Mosaic Ventures provided the money. Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back...
TNW ·
Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which...
Tech.eu ·
A Swedish startup backed by General Catalyst and Lovable and Hugging Face founders is today bringing its AI browser with baked in AI assistants out of beta as it positions itself as an enterprise alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. The...
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