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China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms without government approval

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Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO

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Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, creating a $20 billion transatlantic AI company

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DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

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Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia

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Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms

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Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and cancels 6,000 open roles as $135B AI spending reshapes the company from the inside

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Tesla sales and high gas prices: EV interest is rising but US market shrank 28% after tax credit expired

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SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.

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Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

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White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, commits to intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

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Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy

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Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5

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Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision

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From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostiantyn Gitko is building tech businesses across global markets

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UK Biobank data from 500,000 volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba after Chinese research institutions broke access agreements

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EU prepares to force Google to open Android to ChatGPT and Claude under Digital Markets Act

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Pentagon selects three microreactor companies for Air Force bases as military nuclear programme advances toward 2030

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OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

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