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Amazon Web Services is committing an initial $1 billion to a new organization that will place AI engineers directly inside customer teams. The Forward Deployed Engineering group will help companies…

Waymo robotaxis are no longer available through Uber in Phoenix, ending the companies’ nearly three-year deployment in the city. The vehicles assigned to the program have returned to Waymo’s Phoenix…

California has entered into an agreement with Anthropic that gives state agencies, cities and counties access to Claude at a 50% discount. The arrangement also includes free workforce training, technical…

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan to invest about 800 trillion won, or $518 billion, to build four memory chip fabrication plants in southwestern South Korea. The projects form part…

Arena has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching its commercial AI evaluation service. The company grew from a UC Berkeley research project into a business…

TIDAL will stop fully AI-generated music from earning royalties or generating direct-to-fan sales under a new policy taking effect on July 15, 2026. The streaming service will also label wholly…

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire satellite communications operator Iridium for approximately $8 billion, expanding the launch provider into satellite network operations and communications services. The proposed cash-and-stock transaction values…

Proception has raised $11 million in seed funding and started shipping its first ProHand robotic hands to researchers and robotics companies. The funding follows the startup’s settlement of a trade…

Pocket has raised $11 million to expand its credit card-sized AI recorder, which captures in-person conversations and converts them into transcripts, summaries and action items. Accel led the funding, with…

Flipper Devices, the company behind the Flipper Zero electronic multitool, is moving into workplace productivity with a new device designed to block distracting apps, run focus timers and show when…

Omen AI has raised $31 million to expand a real-time fluid-monitoring system designed to prevent contamination and equipment failures inside liquid-cooled AI data centres. Nava Ventures led the Series A…

UK air passengers are being reminded to keep power banks, vapes and spare lithium batteries out of checked luggage as airports prepare for the busy summer holiday period. The warning…

Xlinks has proposed a large AI data centre and battery storage campus near Great Torrington in North Devon, promising hundreds of permanent jobs and an annual economic contribution of up…

South Korea has announced more than $576 billion in planned semiconductor and artificial intelligence investments as it seeks to increase production capacity and spread advanced industries beyond the Seoul metropolitan…

A German court case could determine whether hundreds of thousands of disabled people working in sheltered workshops should receive the country’s legal minimum wage. The action was brought on behalf…

A blue plaque has been unveiled in Cambridge to commemorate EDSAC, an early computer that helped establish principles still used in modern computing. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator was…

A proposed cap on essential food prices in Scotland has intensified debate over how to make healthy diets affordable without weakening farmers and small producers. The SNP pledged during the…

Families across the UK can access free tennis, cricket, running and disability-inclusive sports programmes as the cost of organised activity becomes a growing concern. While football is often considered inexpensive…

Polymarket has confirmed that hackers stole cryptocurrency from some users after compromising a third-party service connected to its prediction market platform. The company said the attackers used the vendor breach…

Microsoft will increase Xbox Series X and Series S prices worldwide on August 1 as rising memory and storage costs place further pressure on console manufacturing. The company is adding…