TechDefused — Technology & AI Intelligence

Bernie Sanders to convene senators for private AI briefing

German military evaluating 30 AI tools with prototype due in 2027

Anthropic discloses fourth cybersecurity incident involving early Claude checkpoint

DealHub launches AI tool that lets admins reconfigure pricing systems by prompt

Caspian Therapeutics raises $50m to repurpose leukaemia drug class for diabetes

JD.com to build 100,000‑card domestic GPU cluster as logistics automation ramps

Apple acquires brain‑sensor startup Sonera Magnetics

Amazon and AT&T team up to challenge SpaceX's satellite dominance

Anthropic's price cuts risk complicating its IPO pitch, report says

Macron presses ahead with Paris space summit despite no-shows

Stoke Space raises $1bn to speed reusable rockets and add larger Nova Block 2

DealHub launches AI tool that lets admins reconfigure pricing systems by prompt

Qualcomm wins Amazon Web Services deal for AI inference silicon

JD.com to build 100,000‑card domestic GPU cluster as logistics automation ramps

OnTrade launches AI layer for registered investment advisers

Council to pilot self-driving grocery robots in Dorset

Apple big unveil draws backlash as £2,000 iPhone Duo receives social media panning

Apple unveils iPhone Duo, its first foldable, alongside a full smartphone and watch refresh

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash, a smaller, faster multimodal model

Bernie Sanders to convene senators for private AI briefing

German military evaluating 30 AI tools with prototype due in 2027

AI researcher quits Anthropic, warns companies are "gambling with our lives"

Anthropic discloses fourth cybersecurity incident involving early Claude checkpoint

Anthropic tests in-house payments that could pressure Stripe

PayPal pauses sale of its venture portfolio after weak bids

Polymarket valuation hits $21bn as Trump Jr's firm leads $1bn round

Juspay wants to be everywhere in payments, which is exactly the problem

PayPal shares slump as Advent and Stripe walk away from $53 billion bid

Hacker steals $340m from Liquid Network, then gives most of it back

Cloudflare wants AI software to pay websites directly for the data it takes, a fraction of a penny at a time

Vlad.fun suspends operations over "internal integrity issue"

Robinhood built its own crypto network. The market says meh

What BNB Chain's new AI-trading blockchain actually means

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash, a smaller, faster multimodal model

Bernie Sanders to convene senators for private AI briefing

German military evaluating 30 AI tools with prototype due in 2027

AI researcher quits Anthropic, warns companies are "gambling with our lives"

Anthropic discloses fourth cybersecurity incident involving early Claude checkpoint

JD.com to build 100,000‑card domestic GPU cluster as logistics automation ramps

Council to pilot self-driving grocery robots in Dorset

Apple big unveil draws backlash as £2,000 iPhone Duo receives social media panning

Apple unveils iPhone Duo, its first foldable, alongside a full smartphone and watch refresh

SoftBank moves to repay $40bn bridge loan tied to OpenAI stake

Caspian Therapeutics raises $50m to repurpose leukaemia drug class for diabetes

Bluecore Energy raises $50m seed to commercialise floating small modular reactors

Ternus faces first major test as Apple set to unveil first foldable iPhone

Mistral raises €3 billion in Europe's largest tech funding round

UForce in talks for $500 million raise at about $5 billion value

Nvidia expands DLSS 5 to older RTX cards but keeps sliders for developers

Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 as AI model. But you have to pay for this upgrade

Meta opens vibe-coding app Pocket to all US users

Veteran investor calls SpaceX a "highly speculative game" as valuation prices in Musk's moonshots

Sony and TSMC to invest about $6bn in Japanese image‑sensor joint venture

Anthropic nears $15bn credit facility ahead of IPO

Why the AI on the phone line lives or dies by the milliseconds

Brace your ears, Google's new AI music platform promises improved melody and lyrics

Netflix has run out of world to conquer, and no one is sure what comes next

House of the Dragon premieres Season 3, Episode 4 on HBO Max

Anthropic tests in-house payments that could pressure Stripe

Polymarket valuation hits $21bn as Trump Jr's firm leads $1bn round

Juspay wants to be everywhere in payments, which is exactly the problem

PayPal shares slump as Advent and Stripe walk away from $53 billion bid

Payouts.com and Casper Association partner to enable AI agent payments

Hacker steals $340m from Liquid Network, then gives most of it back

Cloudflare wants AI software to pay websites directly for the data it takes, a fraction of a penny at a time

Vlad.fun suspends operations over "internal integrity issue"

Robinhood built its own crypto network. The market says meh

What BNB Chain's new AI-trading blockchain actually means

My Claude Is Smarter Than Your Claude

AI agents explained: What they are, what they can do and why they matter

Large language model basics: Training, prompting, hallucinations, and how to test reliability

Passkeys and password managers: A practical guide to logging in safely in 2026

Deepfakes and synthetic media: How to spot them, verify claims, and protect yourself

Council to pilot self-driving grocery robots in Dorset

Apple big unveil draws backlash as £2,000 iPhone Duo receives social media panning

Apple unveils iPhone Duo, its first foldable, alongside a full smartphone and watch refresh

SoftBank moves to repay $40bn bridge loan tied to OpenAI stake

Meta shares surge as Wall Street turns bullish on new AI agent

OpenAI and NYU mathematician disagree over race to solve landmark equation

Hugging Face ramps into robotics as Nvidia deal looms

Dell and Nvidia unveil six-agent AI healthcare system that fits under a desk

Apple acquires brain‑sensor startup Sonera Magnetics

Google pares back travel search in EU to avoid further fines

US intelligence agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of copying American models

Meta unveils Muse, an AI agent built to run your errands for you

Amazon borrows in pounds for the first time to fund its AI spending spree

Inside ASML, the company every chip on Earth depends on

Anthropic's price cuts risk complicating its IPO pitch, report says

How to watch Apple's 'surprise and shine' event

Apple's foldable iPhone Ultra set for reveal at 'surprise and shine' event

Gary Black says Tesla solved unsupervised autonomy but competition and valuation pose the real risk

Bluecore Energy raises $50m seed to commercialise floating small modular reactors

Hacker steals $340m from Liquid Network, then gives most of it back

Six engineers rebuilt AWS's Bedrock engine in 76 days

Macron presses ahead with Paris space summit despite no-shows

Google nuclear plant revival for AI gets a $1.9bn boost from Washington

Ternus faces first major test as Apple set to unveil first foldable iPhone

Mistral raises €3 billion in Europe's largest tech funding round

Amazon and AT&T team up to challenge SpaceX's satellite dominance

Arm chief says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetime

Runway AI hits $200m in annual recurring revenue

Stoke Space raises $1bn to speed reusable rockets and add larger Nova Block 2

Celero raises $275m at more than $3bn valuation