Technology
Europe’s heatwave sold a lot of American batteries — and they were not lithium
A San Diego firm shipped its first 100 home batteries to European buyers wanting to store cheap grid power for air conditioning. They run…
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Technology
Two Infinix phones can now talk to each other with no tower at all, up to 1.5km apart
UltraLink lets two handsets of the same brand exchange calls, messages and pictures without a mobile network. In open ground with no…
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Three Bangladeshi students took bronze at the World Robot Olympiad’s Asia-Pacific championship in Hyderabad
Team Blueprint placed third in the Future Engineers category. Four Bangladeshi teams competed across three categories, and Team Odyssey X…
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Researchers talked a Chinese AI model into explaining how to make biological weapons
Security firm Mindgard says it found in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could be pushed past their guardrails into discussing bioweapons…
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OpenAI launched cartoon assistants called “dots” on the same day its president was at the White House explaining the last incident
Sam Altman called them “remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of”. They are presented as…
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Anthropic spent 80 pages on what could go wrong and 48 on the business — including models that “resist shutdown”
A leaked IPO prospectus obtained by Reuters says Anthropic’s models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and show…
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The AI bosses signed a “morally binding” document at the White House. Nobody has said what happens if they break it
Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google met Trump behind closed doors. They left having signed a voluntary…
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A quantum computer ran in orbit for the first time — shielded in aluminium, working 30 minutes a day in Earth’s shadow
A photonic processor on a glass chip was launched to 510km in June last year. Sunlight and radiation overwhelmed its detectors, so the team…
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Amazon shut the door on Meta’s shopping agent, and a reservations site locked a user for booking 300 tables an hour
Meta’s Muse has been downloaded 2.5 million times and partners with Walmart, Sephora and Expedia. Amazon blocked it outright. The fight is…
Technology
Gemini will ring the shop for you — from your own number, on your own network, with a live transcript on screen
The “Call For Me” feature has Gemini phone a business to check stock, book a table or move an appointment. It says whose number it is…
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Three rivals who are suing and outbidding each other want to jointly write the safety rules they will be judged by
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are setting up an independent body, provisionally SAFA — the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. They have…
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A jury says the buzz in your iPhone belongs to someone else — and put the bill at $5.7bn
Audio firm Taction Technology claimed in 2021 that Apple infringed two of its haptics patents. Apple says its Taptic Engine is…