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Tech.eu ·
University of Leeds spinout adsilico has raised £10 million in a Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered simulation technology for assessing medical device performance across diverse virtual patient populations. The round was...
Tech.eu ·
UK-based Nous , a company developing an AI agent to help households manage everyday administrative tasks and reduce spending, has raised $17 million in new funding to expand internationally and introduce additional features. The...
Electronics Weekly ·
Server CPU shipments are projected to increase 31% YoY in 2026. In 2027, continued growth in AI inference demand and rising adoption of agentic AI services are expected to drive […] The post Server CPUs to grow 30% in 2026 and 40% in...
Electronics Weekly ·
Atomera, a semiconductor transistor materials and technology licensing company, has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with IQE to bring high-performance, cost-effective RF GaN to market. The collaboration leverages […]...
Electronics Weekly ·
The government is to invest £100 million in an AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to counter biological risks posed by AI. Anthropic and OpenAI will contribute £200 million in compute and model […] The post Government to set up Biosecurity Lab...
The Register ·
UK retail giant Tesco appears to have decided to replace VMware with Proxmox in its stores. A job ad for a new Head of Software Engineering: Edge Platform role says the gig involves leading “two major, interconnected engineering...
Electronics Weekly ·
Humanoid robots are supposed to be the NBT and the thing holding up their commercial deployment is hands, Ed confides to his diary. Robotic hands tend to either be strong […] The post Ed Gets Handy appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
TNW ·
Amazon has settled its lawsuit against two former Amazon Web Services real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on data centre deals, GeekWire reported. Amazon told the court on 20 October, less than two weeks before trial....
TNW ·
Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated references to sources that do not exist, as well as wrong cost...
TNW ·
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had cut the link for fast-moving drones since 14 October. Khmara told reporters that...
TNW · · Medium severity
“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last month. He spoke to The Wall Street...
TNW ·
“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten U.S. national security,” Treasury...
TNW ·
“I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement,” cable billionaire John Malone said on Tuesday. Two days later, Semafor reported that Elon Musk had invested roughly $1bn in Skydance, the media...
TNW ·
“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.” That is what Yuyuan Tantian, a WeChat account...
TNW ·
This time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir.” That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Donald Trump asked him to rename the Atlantic Ocean, according to Trump. The president told the story at a rally in...
TNW ·
AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research reported on Thursday....
TNW ·
OpenAI has lowered the valuation it is seeking for its new funding round to $1.25tn, from the $1.4tn it pitched earlier this month. Some investors had pushed back on the higher price, the Financial Times reported, citing documents it...
TNW ·
Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia, Epic Games said on Friday. That came a day after the Federal Court of Australia ordered Apple to let the game return. 🇦🇺 We’re back on the App Store.
The Register ·
If you've ever wondered how bots would describe us puny humans, you'll be disappointed in the answer. An AI ranking outfit asked 12 different LLMs about people, and every single one agreed: We’re not as rational and intelligent as we...
The Register · · Medium severity
Threat actors built an AI agent designed to hijack exposed AI models to run autonomous attacks, with instructions allowing it to carry out up to 100,000 steps without human approval. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team uncovered the agent's...
The Register ·
One of the most frequently asked questions of Linux folks is "what's the best lightweight distro for an old PC?" The Reg FOSS desk's current answer is Raspberry Pi Desktop. A couple of weeks ago, we covered the news of a Trixie update...
TNW ·
HHS has never told healthcare to stop faxing. Its guidance says the Privacy Rule permits physicians to disclose PHI to another provider by fax for treatment, as long as reasonable and appropriate safeguards are in place. Take two...
TNW ·
Malaysia could extend its ban on the Waze maps app from civil servants to the whole country, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. A full ban would come only after officials look at other apps, he said. Anwar spoke to reporters...
TNW ·
The UK government will put £100m into a new AI Biosecurity Lab, which will use advanced AI to spot and respond to biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m between them, the Cabinet Office said on Saturday. The...
TNW ·
OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Based on the current state of alignment...
TNW · · Medium severity
GMO Internet Group has asked Japan’s government to use its new active cyber defence powers against hackers who breached one of its services. The company made the request on Saturday, after the attackers demanded money. In a stock...
The Register ·
OpenAI says it will deny internet access to the frontier models it is training, a move that underscores the inadequacy of safety measures undertaken to date. "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the...
The Register ·
An independent evaluation of OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company's bots were breaking into model-hosting platform Hugging Face. The...
The Register · · Medium severity
As the PHP2Shell chaos continues, researchers have found a third PHP vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over websites or remotely run malware on vulnerable systems. But this one won’t receive an emergency fix. The PHP...
TNW ·
Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms,...
TNW · · Medium severity
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its open-weight Kimi K3, with full weights due by 4 November. It says the model nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test. Moonshot also says it removed hacking-related...
TNW ·
Cambricon’s revenue doubled to 3.53B yuan in the third quarter, well short of the 6.26B analysts expected, Bloomberg reported. Profit rose 148%, and the company kept its 2026 target. Chinese AI chipmakers face shortages of...
The Register ·
Most programming languages were written for human programmers, but that's about to change. University of Michigan professor Jason Mars has developed an academically ambitious language called Jac , and a runtime called Jaseci, that...
The Register ·
If you've ever wondered what the bots think of us puny humans, you'll be disappointed in the answer. An AI ranking outfit asked 12 different LLMs about people, and every single one agreed: We’re not as rational and intelligent as we...
TNW ·
Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia announced a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU. Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system....
TNW ·
Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded...
Electronics Weekly ·
Google and Synaptics launching an xMCU, datacentre CPU growth outpacing GPUs and ASICs, and Microsoft pulling out of Nscale's UK datacentre project... The post Most Read – xMCUs, NVHBM base dies, Qualcomm layoffs appeared first on...
TNW ·
Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketplace sales. It also changed Marketplace rules. The pledge...
TNW ·
An engineer at Nscale’s Stavanger data centre has sued the AI cloud firm and subcontractor CloudBrothers, Bloomberg reported. He claims Nscale directed his work like an employer and that he was fired after raising pay concerns. The case...
Silicon Republic ·
Dell’s Mark Hopkins explores why Ireland should stop focusing on every ‘layer of the AI stack’ and instead work towards becoming Europe's home for sovereign AI inferencing. Read more: How Ireland can become a leader in sovereign AI...
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