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DeepSeek's annualised revenue tops $1 billion as it lines up a $7.5 billion raise

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan their own AI safety watchdog

AI labs push email and computer access to close the 'capability overhang'

New AI model Jev swaps chatbot prose for confidence scores

Revolut tests paying by face in UK pilot

Replit leans less on open-source AI as OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices

Akamai jumps on $11.6bn Anthropic cloud deal

Qualcomm renews patent deal with Apple

DeepSeek's annualised revenue tops $1 billion as it lines up a $7.5 billion raise

Meta Connect 2026: the biggest announcements beyond Muse

Adobe brings Photoshop and Lightroom into Google Gemini and adds Acrobat to Claude

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

London's bitcoin treasury premium has gone

DeepSeek's annualised revenue tops $1 billion as it lines up a $7.5 billion raise

AI labs push email and computer access to close the 'capability overhang'

Replit leans less on open-source AI as OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices

Shielded Bitcoin plan borrows Zcash-style privacy without changing Bitcoin's rules

London's bitcoin treasury premium has gone

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan their own AI safety watchdog

New AI model Jev swaps chatbot prose for confidence scores

Akamai jumps on $11.6bn Anthropic cloud deal

Wall Street raises its bets on Meta after Connect

Oracle invokes force majeure over New Mexico Project Jupiter

Revolut tests paying by face in UK pilot

Liz Truss joins Roundtable board as crypto ad payments platform goes live

Duffield's third software venture valued at $1.4bn after AI fintech raises $250m

Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors

Inside Blackstone's expanding, multibillion-dollar bet on Google's AI chips

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

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan their own AI safety watchdog

New AI model Jev swaps chatbot prose for confidence scores

Replit leans less on open-source AI as OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices

London's bitcoin treasury premium has gone

Akamai jumps on $11.6bn Anthropic cloud deal

DeepSeek's annualised revenue tops $1 billion as it lines up a $7.5 billion raise

AI labs push email and computer access to close the 'capability overhang'

Shielded Bitcoin plan borrows Zcash-style privacy without changing Bitcoin's rules

Wall Street raises its bets on Meta after Connect

Qualcomm renews patent deal with Apple

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

Gates climate fund backs new batch of energy start-ups as electricity demand climbs

The one-shot gene edit that aims to switch off high cholesterol

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

Sony patents an AI system that fixes its devices before users notice faults

Roblox brings games to the browser and doubles down on AI creation

Apple developing Beats‑branded game controllers for iPhone

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

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

Spotify tests locking new releases away from free users for three days

AI drives nearly half of China's export growth, economist says

Spotify lets parents keep kids' music out of Wrapped

Revolut tests paying by face in UK pilot

Liz Truss joins Roundtable board as crypto ad payments platform goes live

Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors

Inside Blackstone's expanding, multibillion-dollar bet on Google's AI chips

Anthropic tests in-house payments that could pressure Stripe

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

Akamai jumps on $11.6bn Anthropic cloud deal

Wall Street raises its bets on Meta after Connect

Wall Street raises its bets on Meta after Connect

Qualcomm and Apple extend chip licensing deal, TSMC to raise wafer prices 3%-6% in 2027, Google, Oracle, IBM - Big Tech Report

Oracle invokes force majeure over New Mexico Project Jupiter

Qualcomm renews patent deal with Apple

Nvidia's Jensen Huang rejects new AI laws - again

Adobe brings Photoshop and Lightroom into Google Gemini and adds Acrobat to Claude

Meta Connect 2026: the biggest announcements beyond Muse

Trump to raise AI with Xi but wants to 'leave it exactly where it is'

Spotify lets Meta Muse control music by voice

A $4 trillion prize. But is tokenisation more about the plumbing than the tokens? One leading bank thinks so

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

US data centres face 170 gigawatt power shortfall by 2030, says TrendForce

Meta's smart glasses push could lift makers of older chips, say analysts

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

OpenAI plans agent features to counter Musk's Grok Bot and Meta's Muse

Liz Truss joins Roundtable board as crypto ad payments platform goes live

IREN has Microsoft and $14 billion of funding. Now it has to build

Palo Alto Networks unleashes AI agents to attack its customers' systems

Michael Burry raises bets against Micron, Nebius and Palantir

Meta's Alexandr Wang fires up his "tweet cannon" to sell Muse

Musk calls Xi "a great leader" as Chinese president begins US visit

Qualcomm buys PickNik to move deeper into robotics software

LinkedIn's verification push asks professional networks to prove their connections

Google is where you buy. AI is where you decide

Ema raises $77m to turn AI into completed work

Xiaomi's privacy display puts a practical problem in the flagship spotlight

Amazon launches agentic AI tools for marketplace sellers, Sony Music joins AI ethics group ARIAM, Qualcomm, Reddit, Microsoft - Big Tech Report

OpenAI’s Patreon hires put creator relationships at the centre of its next move