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Google puts its first AI chips in orbit: what Project Suncatcher is testing, and why
Google’s first Project Suncatcher prototype is in low Earth orbit carrying its own TPUs, turning a plan to run AI compute in space from…
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Brussels asks whether EU copyright law needs strengthening for AI
The European Commission has opened a consultation on the use of copyright-protected content in AI, with responses due by 3 November.
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OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning
OpenAI has attributed a core cluster of an adversarial distillation campaign to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind Kimi.
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in line
Google’s new frontier model reaches trusted cyber defenders and a US government pre-release process before it reaches developers.
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Nebius contracts 50 MW of US data centre capacity from AIB
A 12-year, 50 MW agreement in the southeastern United States, and a reminder that access to power is now the limiting factor in AI…
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Unsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS Intelligence
The Third Circuit opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is now public, and it treats licensing content for AI training as a market…
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California’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents
Rob Bonta has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI seeking information on cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its models.
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Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a 13-degree-of-freedom hand built to be trained in simulation
Atlas gets a thirteen-degree-of-freedom hand with pressure sensors across fingertips and palm, designed so it can be trained in simulation rather than only hand-programmed.
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Microsoft ships its first streaming transcription model and refreshes its voice line
Microsoft’s first streaming speech-to-text model covers 60 languages with continuous language detection, alongside two refreshed text-to-speech models.
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JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan up to 400MW of AI capacity at a Chiba power station
JERA will explore up to 400MW of AI data centre capacity beside its Chiba thermal power station with Dell, RHAELM and Apollo, at an…