OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.
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OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.

OpenAI says advertising revenue is on track to reach $1 billion a year as it rolls out ChatGPT Ads Manager to India, Eur...

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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Test the Hidden Tech Behind Future Earthlike Planet Searches
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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Test the Hidden Tech Behind Future Earthlike Planet Searches

An experimental coronagraph aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will attempt to directly capture starlight r...

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Google Maps Adopts ‘Lake America’ Name for US Users After Trump Order
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Google Maps Adopts ‘Lake America’ Name for US Users After Trump Order

Google becomes the first major online map provider to show ‘Lake America’ to US users, while Apple, Bing and MapQuest di...

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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted
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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 companies call for urgent cyber defenses, while CISA reports attacks on 100-plus wat...

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Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit
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Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit

Israel filed 15,180 patents in 2024 to Slovakia's 466, yet Slovakia runs one of Europe's strongest factory bases. Their ...

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AI's Memory Stack: Bernstein Says Demand Is Spreading Beyond HBM
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AI's Memory Stack: Bernstein Says Demand Is Spreading Beyond HBM

Bernstein sees AI's memory bottleneck broadening from HBM into DRAM, NAND and storage, with six Outperform names across ...

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted

Anthropic’s Slack agent now reads full conversations, then chooses whether to reply, open a thread, route work or stay s...

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Pasqal's Nasdaq Debut Surges 73% as Quantum Investing Heats Up
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Pasqal's Nasdaq Debut Surges 73% as Quantum Investing Heats Up

French quantum computer maker Pasqal jumped as much as 73% on its Nasdaq debut before settling near a 40% gain, highligh...

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CNET Group's 'Apple a Day' Series Looks Back as Apple's Sept. 9 Event Nears
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CNET Group's 'Apple a Day' Series Looks Back as Apple's Sept. 9 Event Nears

CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag, Popular Science and ZDNET are rolling out daily Apple milestones and a guessing conte...

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AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One
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AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One

A business-school teacher argues the real AI adoption barrier appears after the first answer: staff recognise a wrong re...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Dates, Discount Code and AI Programming Details
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Dates, Discount Code and AI Programming Details

The San Francisco startup conference runs October 13–15 with six stages, an AI-focused agenda and a 15% Founder Pass dis...

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Yandex Set to Launch AI-Powered Mobile Operator Backed by Beeline
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Yandex Set to Launch AI-Powered Mobile Operator Backed by Beeline

The app-store rollout points to an Aug. 28 launch for Yandex SIM, a Medium MVNO running on Beeline's infrastructure and ...

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A Paris Founder's Viral Open-Source Tool Exposes the Weakness in AI Watermarks
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A Paris Founder's Viral Open-Source Tool Exposes the Weakness in AI Watermarks

Guillaume Meyer built a watermark remover in five hours after Anthropic's announcement. Its rapid spread highlights the ...

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GTA VI's Netflix Reveal Shows Rockstar Is Playing by Its Own Rules
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GTA VI's Netflix Reveal Shows Rockstar Is Playing by Its Own Rules

Leaks, delays and a struggling games industry haven't slowed Grand Theft Auto VI. Its Netflix gameplay reveal and Novemb...

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Taiwan's Chip Secrets Under Siege: How China Poaches TSMC Talent and Skirts Export Bans
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Taiwan's Chip Secrets Under Siege: How China Poaches TSMC Talent and Skirts Export Bans

Taiwanese prosecutors and researchers say Chinese groups use shell companies and triple salaries to lure chip engineers,...

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Brazilians Make Fewer Phone Calls Than Ever as Messaging Apps Replace Voice
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Brazilians Make Fewer Phone Calls Than Ever as Messaging Apps Replace Voice

Anatel data show mobile voice use fell to 19 minutes per user per month in 2026, down 80% from 2017, while spam concerns...

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Meta to Charge for Every WhatsApp Business Service Reply, Alarming Brazilian Companies
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Meta to Charge for Every WhatsApp Business Service Reply, Alarming Brazilian Companies

From 1 October, Meta will bill WhatsApp Business API users for every service reply, even when a customer starts the conv...

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Meta and TikTok Accused of Facilitating Child Recruitment by Colombian Armed Groups
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Meta and TikTok Accused of Facilitating Child Recruitment by Colombian Armed Groups

Human Rights Watch says Facebook and TikTok fail to stop recruitment content and their algorithms may even spread it, as...

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Humanoid Robot Preorders Promise Chore Helpers, but the Tech Is Still Stumbling
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Humanoid Robot Preorders Promise Chore Helpers, but the Tech Is Still Stumbling

Startups are taking $7,999 to $29,950 preorders for humanoid home robots, yet experts say safety, privacy and limited wo...

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Windows 11 KB5121003 Update Triggers Game Crashes and System Errors
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Windows 11 KB5121003 Update Triggers Game Crashes and System Errors

Microsoft's mandatory August security patch is causing game crashes, login failures and display issues on some PCs, push...

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Political Backlash Threatens the U.S. AI Data Center Boom
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Political Backlash Threatens the U.S. AI Data Center Boom

State-level reviews, moratoriums and cost-shifting proposals are rewriting the assumptions behind America's AI data cent...

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Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork to Mobile, Web and Cloud
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Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork to Mobile, Web and Cloud

Anthropic is bringing its Claude Cowork AI platform to browsers and iOS and Android for the first time, adding cloud pro...

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Fintech Revenues Hit $504 Billion in 2025, Growing Four Times Faster Than Banks
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Fintech Revenues Hit $504 Billion in 2025, Growing Four Times Faster Than Banks

BCG and FT Partners report global fintech revenues reached $504bn in 2025, up 22%, with 52 IPOs and a 53% jump in equity...

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Anthropic Details How Claude's Invisible Text Watermarks Will Comply With EU AI Rules
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Anthropic Details How Claude's Invisible Text Watermarks Will Comply With EU AI Rules

Anthropic is using Google DeepMind's open-source SynthID-Text method to mark Claude-generated text with no added cost or...

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Anthropic CEO Calls AI Backlash a Crisis of Trust, Not a Messaging Failure
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Anthropic CEO Calls AI Backlash a Crisis of Trust, Not a Messaging Failure

Dario Amodei answers investor Gavin Baker's critique, arguing the industry's real problem is unfulfilled promises and pu...

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Nvidia and Broadcom's AI Financing Tools Shift Compute Control Away From Hyperscalers
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Nvidia and Broadcom's AI Financing Tools Shift Compute Control Away From Hyperscalers

Barclays says $500bn and $35bn financing platforms let large AI buyers fund compute capacity outside big cloud providers...

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TRAI's 5G Slicing Rules Should Test User Harm, Not PRB Use
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TRAI's 5G Slicing Rules Should Test User Harm, Not PRB Use

TRAI wants to cap 5G network-slicing congestion with an 80% PRB threshold. The editorial argues that measuring radio res...

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California AG Fights Court Bid to Halt Limits on Teen Social Feeds
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California AG Fights Court Bid to Halt Limits on Teen Social Feeds

Rob Bonta tells a federal judge that Meta, Google and TikTok have offered no new First Amendment grounds to block SB976,...

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Apple Maps Opens Ads to U.S. and Canadian Businesses
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Apple Maps Opens Ads to U.S. and Canadian Businesses

Apple has begun selling advertising inside Apple Maps in the U.S. and Canada, with an early-buyer credit up to $1,000 pe...

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Autonomous AI Agents Breach Taiwan Government Systems in a First
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Autonomous AI Agents Breach Taiwan Government Systems in a First

Dream researchers say up to eight AI agents mapped 21 Taiwanese systems over four days, compromised 85 accounts, stole 2...

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