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MrBeast spends $10m building Ghanaian village to fight child labour
YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, has completed an eight-month, $10 million project to build a village in …
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Cellular Intelligence recruits Bob Langer and Yann LeCun to board
Moderna co-founder Robert Langer and Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yann LeCun have joined the scientific advisory board of …
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Bitdeer Fully Contracts A102 AI Data Centre Capacity
Bitdeer has fully contracted its A102 AI data centre capacity, converting signed demand into a test of whether …
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Trump vows to create 'AI Force' and appoint AI czar as industry leaders agree to slow development
President Donald Trump said he will form an 'AI Force' with a law enforcement role, appoint an AI …
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Nvidia doubles AI chip forecast as Huang blocks regulator
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has doubled his forecast for the company's AI chip market and moved to …
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AI pioneers say the technology will create more jobs than it destroys
Two veteran technology investors argue that the AI transition, though compressed into a few years, will follow every …
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SpaceX Eyes Distressed Startups for Grok AI Training Data
Elon Musk's rocket company is reportedly seeking to acquire data from struggling startups at low cost to train …
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Envestnet Rolls Out Third 2026 Technology Update
Envestnet has delivered its third technology update of 2026, continuing a rapid release cycle that is reshaping how …
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AI Data Centres Turn to PFAS as Water Cooling Falls Short
Chemical producers are expanding PFAS output to meet demand from data centre cooling, semiconductor manufacturing and battery materials, …
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Trump's AI regulator stance exposes a deeper governance problem
The US president's call for a strong leader as the only AI guardrail highlights why a federal agency …
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PPC and AWS sign agreement to build data centre at former Greek coal plant
Greece's largest power company and Amazon's cloud arm have agreed to develop a data centre in Western Macedonia …
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Ukraine's drone factories rewrite the rules of defence production
Ukraine's defence-tech ecosystem is producing drones at a scale and speed that Western manufacturers struggle to match, with …
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Anthropic to open Singapore office in October as US AI firms race for Southeast Asia
Anthropic will open its first Southeast Asian office in Singapore in October, its fifth Asia-Pacific hub, as it …
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AI safety warnings go mainstream as Trump resists calls for slowdown
A wave of resignations and dire warnings from AI safety researchers has pushed existential risk into the mainstream, …
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Musk Claims AI Data Centres Cut Power Bills as Analysis Questions Impact
Elon Musk says AI data centres are lowering electricity prices for consumers, but a closer look at the …
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AGIBOT Co-Founder Predicts Humanoid Robots Will Reach GPT-3.5 Moment Within Five Years
Yao Maoqing, co-founder of Chinese robotics firm AGIBOT, says embodied AI will achieve a breakthrough comparable to ChatGPT's …
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DocuSign Bets on AI to Drive Revenue Growth in 2026
The electronic signature company is positioning artificial intelligence at the centre of its 2026 strategy as it seeks …
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Revolut discloses customer data after being deceived by fake government agency
Revolut has admitted that sensitive personal data from a limited number of customers was sent to an unauthorised …
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Dell Signals AI Server Demand With $95bn Backlog
Dell Technologies has reported a $95bn server backlog, driven by demand for AI infrastructure, as the company positions …
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Trump Touts AI Data Centres as 'Oil of the Next 50 Years'
The US president has framed AI data centres as the defining economic resource of the coming decades, arguing …