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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...
The Register ·
The Arc browser has flatlined, with its maker announcing it will be sunsetting it altogether on December 22, 2026. The Browser Company announced the news on October 22, just over three years after we noted Arc's arrival . Nothing will...
Tech.eu · · Unconfirmed
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.5 billion and 4 exits, M&A transactions, rumours , and related news stories across Europe. We also released our Q3 report offering data driven insights into the last...
Electronics Weekly ·
Space Tech Expo Europe 2026, which runs 17-19 November, is heading to Bremen for the last time. This is ahead of a move to Frankfurt in 2027. Showcasing space technology, […] The post Space Tech Expo Europe to say farewell to Bremen...
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: Ireland’s organisations and the ‘defining moment’...
TNW ·
Bose bought Skullcandy on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The seller was a fund managed by Mill Road Capital Management, a private investment firm in Connecticut. Skullcandy joins McIntosh and Sonus faber in Bose’s group of...
IT Pro · · Medium severity
A spate of cyber attacks has rocked Japan
The Register ·
SparkyOS is a novel distro from the folks behind SparkyLinux: it's a version of Arch that can you can use without installing it at all. SparkyOS is a new distro from the team behind the Debian-based SparkyLinux, but it's quite...
Tech.eu · · Medium severity
A few years ago, a couple arrived at an EV charging site on a mobility scooter in broad daylight, armed with a hacksaw. They proceeded to steal the charging cables, apparently unconcerned about being filmed from a passing bus. But what...
TNW ·
Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the South China...
The Register ·
NASA's safety watchdog, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), had good news and bad news for the space agency, and SpaceX boss Elon Musk quickly disagreed with some of it. Musk disputed the reported suggestion that approximately...
The Register ·
Microsoft ended support for Publisher this month, but users with orphaned documents still have options. Support for perpetual versions ended on October 13, but those copies will keep working without further security updates, bug fixes,...
TNW ·
Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Thomas...
TNW ·
Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recursive says its own automated research system helped build...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Anthropic is planning to back a new European AI consultancy with Hg, the London-based private equity firm, the Financial Times reported. The independent company will place AI engineers and consultants inside businesses to help them...
TNW ·
Cloudflare has recorded millions of attempts to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities since details became public on Wednesday, according to CEO Matthew Prince. The flaws affect PHP, a programming language used to power much of the...
TNW ·
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research have used close to 2,000 AI agents to analyse a large mouse brain dataset in 32 minutes. The team estimates that researchers working by hand would need months to a year for the same analysis, which...
TNW ·
Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The...
TNW ·
Intel could not make 10 times more leading-edge wafers even if it wanted to, says its chief technology officer, Pushkar Ranade. The world lacks the chipmaking tools. Doubling output is about the limit, he told Dwarkesh Patel on the...
TNW ·
Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work.
TNW ·
Rivian has bought Third Dimension AI, a startup that turns real-world camera footage into 3D scenes. The carmaker will use them to train and test its driver assistance and self-driving software. Rivian announced the deal on Thursday and...
Silicon Republic ·
The 2026 I Wish survey found that girls are likely to be excluded from Ireland’s AI future if gaps in subject access are not addressed. Read more: Ireland risks leaving girls behind in its AI future, warns I Wish
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has raised about 100bn yuan ($15bn), one of the largest private funding rounds ever in China. Bloomberg reported the deal on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Battery maker CATL and Tencent, which...
TNW ·
Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers will install an IQM Spark at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid before the end of 2026. It will be the first quantum computer in the Community of Madrid, the two companies said when they announced...
The Register ·
Linus Torvalds is embracing AI to write Linux kernel code, and some people are having fits. Roy Schestowitz, editor of Tux Machines, summed up his reaction to the news as " Linus Torvalds Turns to Slop . " In the podcast Pivot to AI ,...
TNW ·
Maxinsights pays people to wear cameras while they cook, clean and work. The Santa Clara startup has now raised $30M in seed funding to turn that footage into training data for robots. Peak XV led the round, the company announced on...
Silicon Republic ·
The new bill will come into force from January 2027. Read more: Greek parliament greenlights under-15 social media ban
IT Pro · · Medium severity
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies. He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro...
IT Pro ·
TrendAI targets open weight model gains with Nvidia Nemotron deal
Electronics Weekly ·
Vector has redeveloped its IEEE 11073 SDC (Service-oriented Device Connectivity) stack in the Rust programming language to improve software quality and security. The new stack is designed to help medical […] The post Vector’s Rust-based...
TNW ·
Purchase volumes on Muse came in “above what any of us expected”, Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta had to ask Stripe to raise its credit limits. He spoke on Meta’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
TNW ·
Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 House Democrats have told Mark Zuckerberg it is “unacceptable” for a platform to favour one candidate. Their letter, sent on Thursday, asks Meta to explain its role in Brazil’s presidential race. The vote...
IT Pro ·
Hammer Distribution and Acronis partner on automated MSP cyber operations
TNW ·
Meta says Mark Zuckerberg “would effectively be paying to serve” as its chief executive if California taxes its billionaires. So it is creating new shares he can sell to cover the bill. In return, he has promised to stay in the state,...
IT Pro ·
Big tech taskforce unveils new blueprint for UK AI leadership
The Register ·
Working in the same place for what feels like millennia can have its benefits, however working for the same place for what seems like millennia carrying over all the benefits of your original contract can be even better than that. Some...
TNW ·
Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and president John Collison to its board, the company disclosed on Wednesday in its annual proxy statement. The same filing asks shareholders to approve a $90.6m pay package for chief executive...
TNW ·
OpenAI has partnered with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute to research AI safety and security, as concerns grow over AI agents behaving in ways their developers did not intend. The company announced the agreement today, saying...
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