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In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported. In a disc

Across my conversations with leaders in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries, one priority consistently rises to the top: putting technology to work on their most important systems while maintaining the control those systems require. This challenge is beco

A software engineer whose company is looking into its own spending on AI tools pinged me with a very timely question recently, asking what other companies spend on AI, per engineer. They were also keen to find out what the PR throughput was before and after the spending on AI at

UK government to make Jackdaw gas field announcement - Published The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. It is widely believed in Westminster that Jackdaw will be approved but that a decision

AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirro

Shares of Braze surged in Tuesday’s trade on October 20, rallying 52% to a 22-month high of $45.59 apiece on the Nasdaq after Salesforce (CRM) agreed to acquire the customer-engagement software company, handing existing investors a major windfall. For Braze, the strategic attract

German AI-powered language translation powerhouse goes VAST DeepL is using VAST Data’s storage and AI OS to help it develop new language translation offerings, saying it expects to get roughly three times the storage capacity from its existing hardware. The company is a neural ma

Meta’s AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market. According to new data from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, Muse has seen 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10

The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly. We’ve seen many news items in the last week showing both the U.S. and Chinese governments positioning themselves for some cont

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Atlassian’s 2026 State of Developer Experience report reveals a disconnect between AI adoption, developer productivity and organisational performance. An engineering leader recently asked me how AI could help their team work more effectively, to keep up with a rapidly growing wor

Travel tech company ixigo is betting on hotels as its fourth growth engine alongside trains, flights, and buses, as further market share gains become harder in rail bookings and high airfares and capacity constraints weigh on flights. The company began reporting hotels as a separ

AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirro

Dive Brief: - Walmart is offering customers a way to combine a Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus membership, another challenge to Amazon Prime from the retail giant. - As of Tuesday, customers can buy the two memberships for $120 a year, which trims nearly $100 for those who sign up f

TP-Link proposes $1 billion US Wi-Fi router manufacturing alliance with Key Tronic — potential deal seeks to end ongoing saga blocking its Wi-Fi 8 products from American homes You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours TP-Link is fully determined to get in the good graces of the U.S

Dive Brief: - Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering topped $600 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, according to a Tuesday press release from the company. - Hasbro reported Q3 net sales of $1.5 billion, up 17.5% year over year. It marks the fourth consecutive quarter of doub

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity. She is the founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI, which she started after spending nearly seven years as a

Dive Brief: - Best Buy is piloting Best Buy Gamers, a new online hub for gaming content, preorders, gear, deals, giveaways and experiences, according to a Tuesday press release. The company intends to add new features, content and perks as it receives feedback from shoppers. - In

“That Does Not Make Any Sense”: Early Trend Alert This early audio (under 850 videos) is being used for situations where the outcome was completely predictable and yet people act surprised when it happens. Creators put the questionable decision in the hook, then act out the lyric

Sloppy England start winter with Pakistan defeat - Published One-day international tri-series, Rawalpindi Pakistan 302-9 (50 overs): Baker 3-65; Nawaz 79 (74), Arafat 59 (58) England 215 (38.4 overs): Banton 57 (53), Arafat 6-40 Pakistan won by 87 runs England began their wanderi

Novo on Tuesday said its next-generation obesity drug, CagriSema, showed 25% weight loss on average among adult women in a new analysis conducted after a late-stage trial. The Danish company said further work is needed to confirm the hypotheses of two post-study analyses. Still,

AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirro

Woman says she 'couldn't speak or breathe' during alleged rape by Russell Brand - Published - Warning - this report contains graphic content A woman who says Russell Brand raped her at his home in London told police she "couldn't speak or breathe" during the alleged attack, a jur

JustWatch, a company offering a search engine and guide for streaming movies and TV shows, is now moving directly into the streaming business itself. On Tuesday, the company behind the popular guide that’s used by 50 million people is launching JustWatch TV. The new streaming ser

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NVIDIA has run a 104-qubit simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, using 8,192 GH200 GPUs. Announced ahead of GTC Berlin, the run models magic state cultivation, a method of producing

Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand. When the plant wanted more light, electrical signals flowed through the living tiss

Allen considers retirement after NI Open exit - Published An emotional Mark Allen said retiring from snooker is "something I have been contemplating for a while" following his first-round loss to Jordan Brown in the Northern Ireland Open. Allen was beaten 4-2 by fellow Antrim man

Harry says he wants to 'reconcile' with his family - Published The Duke of Sussex has said he wants to repair his complicated relationships with his father and brother, in a magazine interview. "Some people don't want it to work out. I want it to work out. With everything else th