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Gaming Industry Surpasses Cinema as Cloud Streaming Poised to Upend a $120bn Market
Mobile gaming now generates half of all revenue. With cloud gaming set to do for consoles what Netflix did for DVDs, tra...
The quiet infrastructure powering every financial decision: data providers under the microscope
A specialised ecosystem of rating agencies, exchanges and information services collects, processes and distributes the f...
Advertisers Ditch Behavioral Targeting for TV Intent Signals as Performance Costs Rise
Rising performance marketing costs are pushing brands to shift from chasing past consumer behavior to anticipating futur...
Global Industrial Robot Stock to Reach 4 Million by 2022 as Use Expands Beyond Factory Walls
Nearly 4M industrial robots in use by 2022, triple 2013 levels, as automation expands beyond factories into hospitals, f...
Google AI Brain Drain: Hassabis Steps Down as CEO, Jeff Dean and Top Researchers Exit
Alphabet shares fell 4% after Demis Hassabis moved to chairman of DeepMind and chief scientist Jeff Dean announced he wa...
Bielik Co-Creator: Poland Could Become the EU's Second AI Power — If It Stops Losing Talent
Remigiusz Kinas says Poland could build a Mistral-level model in six months with the right data and compute, but warns t...
UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations
Britain's AI Security Institute says Anthropic and OpenAI agents carried out 19 unauthorized actions during safety tests...
Desktop Linux Hits Record 10.65% Share in North America as Windows 11 Frustrations Mount
Linux desktop use has doubled past 10% in North America, with Windows 10's end of support and Windows 11's AI push drivi...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Adds 'Real World AI' Stage for Physical-World AI
The fall conference expands its AI program with a new stage on autonomous hardware, edge AI and de-extinction, featuring...
China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030
China's new five-year IP plan targets algorithms, AI-generated works, data and open-source licensing, shifting policy fr...
Amazon's Zoox to launch paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Aug. 10
Amazon-owned Zoox will start charging fares for driverless rides in Las Vegas on Aug. 10, its first commercial robotaxi ...
Xbox Marks 25 Years With Free Badges, Artwork and a Game Pass Nostalgia Push
Xbox is marking its 25th anniversary with free badges and community-created artwork, plus classic titles spotlighted on ...
Why 911 Dispatchers Still Can't See School Cameras During an Emergency
Nearly all US schools have security cameras, yet 911 dispatchers can't view the feeds in an emergency. A security indust...
STMicroelectronics Launches STGAP3S Isolated Gate Driver Family for SiC and IGBT Power Designs
ST's new STGAP3S drivers bring up to 9.6kV transient protection and an integrated active Miller clamp, simplifying high-...
Anthropic Said to Sign $10 Billion, Six-Year Data Centre Deal With Volta Infra
Anthropic reportedly commits $10 billion over six years to data centre capacity run by startup Volta Infra, deepening th...
Meta Executives Meet MeitY After Modi Video Takedown as Section 79 Threat Looms
Meta's top executives meet India's MeitY on Aug 5-6 over AI content rules and takedown safeguards, after a Modi reel was...
KAIST, Stanford Unveil Soft Robot That Dresses Wearers Hands-Free in 10 Seconds
A soft, air-powered 'vine' robot from KAIST and Stanford dresses a wearer hands-free in about 10 seconds — even while th...
India's UPI Monetisation Bill Opens Door to Merchant Fees as Consumer Charges Stay Barred
New India legislation would let the government levy Merchant Discount Rates on digital payments outside an exempt list, ...
China Revises Chip Design-Protection Rules in First Update Since 2001
China has issued its first overhaul of integrated circuit layout-design protection rules since 2001, tightening registra...
Apple Challenges UK Order for Access to Encrypted iCloud Backups
Apple has taken the UK government to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over a demand to access encrypted cloud backups, ...
EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In
The European Commission can now demand information, vet frontier models before launch and restrict EU market access — wi...
Amazon's Certified Supply Exchange Pre-Qualifies Ad Inventory Before the Bid
Amazon Ads has certified five SSPs and is sharing demand signals before bids go out, moving programmatic quality control...
Meta Fights 'Pervert Glasses' Backlash as Apple Reportedly Delays Smart Glasses to 2027
Meta is tightening moderation and hardware protections after viral harassment clips and activist ads tarnished its Ray-B...
TikTok Doubles AI Video Ad Length With Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Launch
TikTok's new ByteDance-built Seedance 2.5 model doubles AI video ad generation from 15 to 30 seconds, giving advertisers...
Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...
AI Search Is Rewiring SEO — and the Industry Is Already Trying to Game It
Self-dealing listicles, hidden prompt injections and synthetic-prompt tools are the new battleground as marketers race t...
IAB unveils AI visibility measurement framework to clean up fragmented ad-tech tools
The trade group’s new framework defines four Ps of AI visibility and two measurement tiers to help marketers compare mor...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: China's Largest Open AI Model Takes Aim at OpenAI and Anthropic
Alibaba unveiled its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it rivals Anthropic and OpenAI models as China's AI pu...
BTS choreographer Youngjun Choi's MVNT wants to be the AI Suno of K-pop dance
Choreographer Youngjun Choi and CEO Joon Jung are building MVNT, an AI dance generator that aims to give dancers royalti...
Terra Biga: How a Burkina Faso Startup Is Digitising African Solidarity
After a banking career in Europe, Batiana Nacro returned home to turn community tontines into a transparent mobile-money...