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Start Up No.2727: US tech blames China on datacentres, Yahoo tries yet again, the pain of login, Vision Pro jobs cut, and more

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Start Up No.2726: US data centres’ politics problem, OpenAI warns of AI attacks, will your monitor track you too? and more

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Start Up No.2725: Iranian hackers shut UK power plant, waiting for AI disaster, Roku serves up TV slop, visualising LLMs, and more

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Start Up No.2724: ways to think about AI use, do we need artificial viruses?, South Korea hits record heat, finding GPS, and more

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Start Up No.2723: how an AI agent hacked multiple systems, world hits 3TW of solar, how Google is killing journalism, and more

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Start Up No.2722: US military suspected over GPS plane crash, data centre YIMBYs, Rhine river falls to new lows, and more

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Start Up No.2721: global warming is speeding up, why Time is showing adverts to bots, the AI fast food servers, and more

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Start Up No.2720: $88m bitcoin hack from bad code, the TikTok AI slop shop factory, Substack’s precipice, Apple’s bug fight, and more

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Start Up No.2719: the Wikipedian and the chatbots, the TV streaming stick fraud, our average age, and more

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Start Up No.2718: Google breaks up AlphaFold team, EVs rise in UK sales, the data centre building challenge, and more

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Start Up No.2717: AI stocks fall as investors get edgy, eBay pays for harassment campaign, are smart rings AI’s gadget?, and more

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Start Up No.2716: Apple’s AI advantage, AI lobbying explodes, the dangers of underscored usernames, bad AI forecasts, and more

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Start Up No.2715: what shall we do with superintelligence?, smartphones in North Korea, Nvidia corners RAM supply, and more

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Start Up No.2714: Google loses results scraping lawsuit, more on OpenAI’s hacking machine, Samsung has a Fold for all, and more

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Start Up No.2713: how OpenAI’s agent hacked Hugging Face, secondhand books feed chatbot, alerting to Claudefishing, and more

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Start Up No.2712: Meta’s smart glasses as creep enablers, the car alarm that hacks your car, Fable disproves big maths problem, and more

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Start Up No.2711: China intensifies the open source AI war, Meta’s unhappy engineers, how France saved the UK grid, and more

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Start Up No.2710: how vibe coding could hurt open source, Kimi shocks the LLM world, Tokyo’s workers get shorty, and more

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Start Up No.2708: Meta’s AI ads go screwy, US soldiers targeted by Iran via phones, Suno hack reveals extent of scraping, and more

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