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Xu Zewei extradited to US

A man accused of carrying out cyberattacks for Chinese state actors has been extradited to the United States and is in federal custody in Houston.

Ted Lasso returns to Apple TV on 5 August with a new team, a new cast and a three-year wait finally over

The Emmy-winning comedy's fourth season sees Jason Sudeikis coaching a second-division women's football side at AFC Richmond

Australia threatens Google, Meta and TikTok with 2.25% revenue levy unless they pay for news

The draft law closes the loophole that allowed Meta to avoid payments by simply removing news content from its platforms

Judge tells Musk, Altman and Brockman to stop trading barbs on social media as OpenAI trial opens

The warning came after Musk called Altman "Scam Altman" on X just hours before jury selection began in Oakland

Nvidia launches open multimodal model that unifies vision, audio and language for AI agents

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni delivers up to nine times higher throughput than rival open models, replacing fragmented perception pipelines with a single architecture

Meta breaks ground on 32nd data centre as AI buildout accelerates across the United States

The company has started construction on 10 new sites in 24 months and committed more than $600 billion in US infrastructure investment by 2028

Google donates Agent Payments Protocol to FIDO Alliance in push to standardise AI-driven commerce

The updated protocol introduces "Human Not Present" payments, allowing AI agents to complete transactions autonomously on a user's behalf

Kraken's xStocks integrates with CoinRoutes to bring tokenised equities into institutional trading workflows

The platform has processed more than $28 billion in transaction volume since launching in June 2025.

DeepMind scientist argues no AI system will ever become conscious, calling the assumption a 'fundamental fallacy'

The paper has been downloaded more than 27,000 times and directly challenges the AGI narratives underpinning billions of dollars in AI investments

Michael Burry deepens bearish bet against Palantir while building stakes in beaten-down enterprise software

The "Big Short" investor holds put options implying Palantir shares could fall below $50 by mid-2027, even as he buys into Salesforce, Adobe and Autodesk.

Forecasters warn incoming El Niño could push global temperatures past 2C for the first time

Climate models show a one-in-four chance of a "super" event by autumn, with some projections breaching the Paris Agreement's long-term ceiling

Gemini exchange launches AI-powered trading as first regulated US platform to let bots execute orders

Users can connect models such as Claude and ChatGPT to their accounts using the open-source Model Context Protocol

Apple's six new product categories take shape under Ternus, from smart glasses this year to AR specs by 2030

The incoming chief executive's roadmap spans AI wearables, a foldable iPhone this autumn and an uncertain 20-inch foldable iPad

Google adds Albertsons grocery data to YouTube ad targeting through Commerce Media Suite

The partnership gives consumer brands access to purchase signals from 47 million loyalty members when running video campaigns on YouTube

Google and Kaggle relaunch AI Agents Vibe course

Google is bringing back its AI Agents Vibe coding course with Kaggle for a second run.

Big Tech earnings arrive this week with AI spending and monetisation under the microscope

Five of the Magnificent Seven report results in the space of 48 hours, giving investors their clearest read yet on whether record capital expenditure is translating into revenue

Meta signs deals to beam solar power from space and store it for 100 hours to feed AI data centres

The Facebook owner has reserved up to one gigawatt of orbital solar energy and one gigawatt of ultra-long-duration battery storage in its most ambitious power play yet

OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft exclusivity in rewritten partnership deal

The ChatGPT maker can now serve customers on any cloud provider as it caps revenue share payments and strips Microsoft of its exclusive model licence

HMRC rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 28,000 staff

A government trial reported modest time savings but flagged limits on complex work and data handling.

Anthropic seeks European data centre deals, hires dealmaker

AI giant is pursuing European data centre agreements and recruiting a role to negotiate compute capacity for its artificial intelligence models, CNBC reports.