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Savi Security launches app to shield consumers from AI voice-cloning scams
Savi Security, a startup founded by brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, has launched an app designed to shield ordinary consumers from increasingly convincing AI-generated scams delivered via text, email and phone. The company has raised $7 million in seed funding, led by Acrew Capital, and its iPhone and Android app goes live on Tuesday. The…
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DeepSeek said to be designing its own inference chips to cut supplier reliance
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence chips, according to sources cited by Reuters. The firm is said to be designing silicon specifically for inference — the process of running an already-trained model — as part of an effort to lessen its dependence on third-party chip suppliers such as Huawei and…
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Autonomous robots powered by AI may soon join workplaces and homes
Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.
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Bank of England moves to relax bank capital rules amid AI stability concerns
Bank of England financial policy committee members voice concern on trimming lenders’ financial buffersBusiness live – latest updatesThe Bank of England is planning to loosen capital requirements for major UK lenders, even as policymakers expressed concern about the threat to financial stability from rapid AI developments and debt-fuelled stock investments.The central bank said on Tuesday…
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Erling Haaland becomes viral World Cup meme through fake AI videos
A viral video appearing to show Norway’s Erling Haaland flinching at his own reflection in a restaurant racked up more than 31 million views on X during the 2026 World Cup, but it was not real. Fact-checkers traced the footage to a June skit by Chinese comedian Jin Long, yet the clip kept spreading even…
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Mass Balance sends autonomous chemistry lab into orbit to study disease proteins
British startup Mass Balance has launched an autonomous, self-run chemical laboratory into orbit, aiming to gather data on hard-to-study, disease-causing proteins in the near-absence of gravity. The grapefruit-sized apparatus lifted off aboard a SpaceX transporter on Tuesday morning and matters because it represents an early step towards using space as a routine research environment for…
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Stymied datacentre projects threaten global AI revolution
Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being delayed or cancelled just as demand for the computing power behind artificial intelligence surges. The Uptime Institute, which rates datacentres, found that of 250 global projects above 100MW announced between 2021 and 2024, roughly half will either not go ahead or will be completed late. This backlog…
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Zinc Media forms dedicated AI label Cicada to centralise operations
Zinc Media Group, the UK-based factual production and distribution company behind labels such as Brook Lapping, Rex, Supercollider and Tern, has launched a dedicated artificial intelligence label called Cicada. The move matters because it formalises the group’s growing AI operations into a single unit, reflecting a wider industry trend of production companies creating official AI…
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Dignity at work in an age of automation, Sarah O’Connor’s new book
A Financial Times journalist ponders the future of labour in world increasingly dominated by AI and automationIt’s never been easy to land and keep a decent job. But it feels like it’s getting harder. In June, the number of job vacancies in the UK fell to a five-year low; headlines warn of a looming AI-employment…