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Palantir has dropped its court fight over a blocked £50m Met Police deal, and the settlement says the block was never about its ethics
Palantir withdraws its High Court challenge against MOPAC. The block stands, neither side paid the other, and the contract will be re-run…
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Google will now install an app you described in plain language straight onto your phone, and it never appears in the Play Store
Apps built in Google AI Studio can now be installed through Google Play into a private collection — no USB cable, no debugging. Initially…
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Every call to this GP surgery now passes through an AI before a human hears it, and a 65-year-old was asked about her pregnancy
Newbury Street Practice in Wantage routes all calls through the AI Andi triage system. Patients describe it as a "wall"; the surgery says…
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Anthropic told investors its revenue hit $16.8bn in three months, on the same day chip stocks fell and Seoul halted trading
Revenue rose 45% to $16.8bn in the quarter to September, a second straight profitable quarter. The briefing came as AMD, Nvidia and Intel…
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Physicists say the smallest black holes could leak gravity into a fifth dimension, which would make them the only instrument we have for detecting one
A Physical Review D paper from Lehman College argues tiny black holes formed just after the Big Bang are dense enough for their gravity to…
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Zelensky said there were "fewer bots" after Ukraine hit Russian data centres. The chart everyone shared was counting something else
BBC Verify finds no evidence the strikes on Yandex data centres reduced Kremlin-linked influence operations. The viral Cloudflare chart…
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92% of employers have met AI misconduct in hiring, and the graduate who sent 200 applications says refusing to use it is the real disadvantage
An Institute of Student Employers survey of 155 big UK graduate employers found 92% had met or suspected AI misconduct, up from 85%. Most…
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A recording device was found wrapped in toilet paper inside a USB port at OpenAI, and the company says it used its own models to work out who put it there
Federal prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer over a recording device hidden in a USB port in an executive conference room. He allegedly…
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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% to their worst third quarter in fourteen years, and the reason is the same chip that doubled Dhaka's RAM prices
Counterpoint Research puts Q3 shipments down 20% year on year, the weakest third quarter in 14 years. AI infrastructure is absorbing the…
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Huawei will run an ICT academy inside East West University, and the training will be free to students
An MoU signed by acting vice-chancellor Mohammad Ashik Mosaddik and Huawei South Asia's Ma Ben puts a Huawei ICT Academy on campus, with…
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1.8 million people signed up for 5,000 seats, and the singer says most of them were bots
Raye says touts used AI bots to create "hundreds of thousands of fake registrations" for her Royal Albert Hall show. Her team reviewed the…
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He is 22, he cuts other people's videos into clips, and he says it pays him £120,000 a year. Almost nobody else makes anything
Eknoor Singh, 22, says he makes at least £10,000 a month cutting clients' videos into vertical clips, at up to $3 per 1,000 views. A…