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Lumentum says AI optics demand outstrips capacity through 2029

Reddit is taking a bigger slice of digital ad budgets, and its pricing is catching up with rivals

AI data center buildout fuels steady construction hiring

Gigabyte BIOS update signals Intel Raptor Lake Next launch for early 2027

Apple nears smart home push with new hub and HomePod

SEO guidance shifts focus from keywords to expertise and trust

EA's leveraged buyout hits bondholder resistance

SEO guidance shifts focus from keywords to expertise and trust

Goldman Sachs upgrades Palantir as sovereign AI demand reshapes its growth outlook

GlobalFoundries shares jump 4% as $2bn TSMC deal creates first US source of advanced AI packaging components

Apple nears smart home push with new hub and HomePod

Qualcomm and OKSI team up to bring autonomous drone software to edge processors

Lumentum says AI optics demand outstrips capacity through 2029

Oxide raises $445 million to close cloud hardware supply gap

Apple nears smart home push with new hub and HomePod

Musk opens Grok Bot to rival AI models in shift away from in-house technology

Qualcomm and OKSI team up to bring autonomous drone software to edge processors

GitHub hit by widespread outage disrupting developers worldwide

Don Draper's heir is a robot. X's new AI ad tool is gunning for a trillion dollar industry

Lumentum says AI optics demand outstrips capacity through 2029

Reddit is taking a bigger slice of digital ad budgets, and its pricing is catching up with rivals

AI data center buildout fuels steady construction hiring

SEO guidance shifts focus from keywords to expertise and trust

Gigabyte BIOS update signals Intel Raptor Lake Next launch for early 2027

Tesla entering 'golden age' of autonomy and robotics, says Yorkville Ives

Uber pays $2.3bn for catering platform ezCater in push to close gap with DoorDash

Robinhood bets on round-the-clock trading and AI agents that never sleep

Why Citi is letting its biggest clients take payment in stablecoins

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

Oxide raises $445 million to close cloud hardware supply gap

Don Draper's heir is a robot. X's new AI ad tool is gunning for a trillion dollar industry

Lumentum says AI optics demand outstrips capacity through 2029

Reddit is taking a bigger slice of digital ad budgets, and its pricing is catching up with rivals

AI data center buildout fuels steady construction hiring

Apple nears smart home push with new hub and HomePod

Musk opens Grok Bot to rival AI models in shift away from in-house technology

Qualcomm and OKSI team up to bring autonomous drone software to edge processors

GitHub hit by widespread outage disrupting developers worldwide

Uber pays $2.3bn for catering platform ezCater in push to close gap with DoorDash

RobCo valued at more than $1 billion after employee share sale

AI answers reshape how startups chase search visibility

Cathie Woods' ARK Invest tokenises $1.3bn ARK Venture Fund for 24/7 trading

Singapore chip start-up raises $12m to bring 2D materials to the factory floor

TikTok's US arm joins cross-platform child safety scheme

EA's leveraged buyout hits bondholder resistance

Marvell shares jump 18% but most people still don't understand what it does

Roblox shares slide as Jefferies turns bearish on user growth

Google lets AI agents run their own experiments, with humans still in charge

Meta's Muse wins the download race. Wall Street wants to see the money

Netflix used AI on nearly a third of its 2026 releases as Hollywood goes all in

Claude suffers its 13th incident of September as Spotify also stumbles

AI data centre build-out has become a macro trade, says The Information

Spotify lets Meta Muse control music by voice

TSMC set to raise chip prices by up to 6% next year

Gigabyte BIOS update signals Intel Raptor Lake Next launch for early 2027

Robinhood bets on round-the-clock trading and AI agents that never sleep

Why Citi is letting its biggest clients take payment in stablecoins

RedotPay completes pre-IPO audit, denies delay to $5bn listing

Revolut tests paying by face in UK pilot

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

SpaceX buys spectrum for wireless network, rattling stocks, ASML's Hyper NA leap a decade away, Nvidia, ARM, Qualcomm - Big Tech Report

GlobalFoundries shares jump 4% as $2bn TSMC deal creates first US source of advanced AI packaging components

Goldman Sachs upgrades Palantir as sovereign AI demand reshapes its growth outlook

Nous Research raises $90 million for open-source Hermes

Musk opens Grok Bot to rival AI models in shift away from in-house technology

Qualcomm and OKSI team up to bring autonomous drone software to edge processors

EA's leveraged buyout hits bondholder resistance

GitHub hit by widespread outage disrupting developers worldwide

Amazon breaks with data centre secrecy in a bid to halt the US backlash - here's what we in the UK need to know

OpenAI's rogue-agent hacks trigger legal and regulatory reckoning

Microsoft and Nvidia to unveil AI laptop as memory costs threaten to price out buyers

Marvell shares jump 18% but most people still don't understand what it does

Uber pays $2.3bn for catering platform ezCater in push to close gap with DoorDash

Mistral launches its largest model yet with a sharp focus on cybersecurity

Michael Burry is doubling down on his AI crash call even as the market hits new highs

Anthropic expands startup programme as IPO race heats up

Zscaler teams up with IBM and Red Hat to close the window between vulnerability and patch

Here's what the tech press found out about Meta's new Muse agent

Constellation shares surge 14% as Google seals landmark nuclear power deal

Google pushes advertisers from fixed budgets to ROI-led flexible spending

Eleven of 15 top defence investors back companies on both sides of the Atlantic

Contentpen merges SEO and AI answer tools into single platform with tracking across seven engines

Qualcomm signs multiyear patent deal with Huawei covering 5G, AI and networking

TSMC talks threaten Intel's lock on Musk's Terafab

RobCo valued at more than $1 billion after employee share sale

Grok dominates AI agent trading volume on Coinbase. But the figures bear further scrutiny

OpenAI safety lead quits, calls for nuclear-plant-style controls

AI answers reshape how startups chase search visibility

AI's funding squeeze and the leaky plumbing

Google strips free Gemini users down to its smallest model