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The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10
TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.
An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.
Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.
Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%
The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private
Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.
AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door
LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.
Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited
A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’
$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom
Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets
X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account
Disney sells its last big cable stake to Hearst for $1.2bn

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