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As U.S. pushes back on data centers, China races to build them and catch up Report: Vance weighing direct talks with Iran, Trump sees June MOU as blunder US, China stress importance of potential trilateral talks with Russia Matthew Stafford a full participant Wednesday; Myles Garrett limited Messick finishes third in AL Cy Young Award voting ‘A massive power grab’: AI regulation concerns - Ticker News 49ers Designate DT CJ West For Return; Latest On Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Daniel Jones is "not happy" with Colts' roster purge As U.S. pushes back on data centers, China races to build them and catch up Report: Vance weighing direct talks with Iran, Trump sees June MOU as blunder US, China stress importance of potential trilateral talks with Russia Matthew Stafford a full participant Wednesday; Myles Garrett limited Messick finishes third in AL Cy Young Award voting ‘A massive power grab’: AI regulation concerns - Ticker News 49ers Designate DT CJ West For Return; Latest On Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Daniel Jones is "not happy" with Colts' roster purge

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Polaroid’s new instant camera has four creative shooting modes you can experiment with

Polaroid announced a new instant camera that lets photographers get more creative and experimental with their shots than just changing the aperture or shutter speed. In addition t…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Instagram expands what partner schools can do on its app

Instagram has expanded the features its School Partnership Program can access.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

The midrange Dell XPS 13 is the one you actually want

8GB of RAM for a Windows 11 laptop just isn't enough anymore.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

QALO launches a smart band to wear alongside its smart ring

QALO, better known for making silicone jewelry, is launching its own Whoop-esque fitness band.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Lola is Booking.com's new AI travel agent

A new AI agent can book trips, concert tickets, restaurants and more.

Technology · Startups

New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety

The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Me…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Why Wi-Fi extenders simply aren't worth buying in 2026

A Wi-Fi repeater seems like an easy fix to wireless network problems in your house, but it's rarely the best option.

Technology · Startups

GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source pr…

Technology · Startups

Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify

Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to small businesses, letting owners connect it to the software they already use to run their companies, the company announced today. The new ver…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.

Technology · Startups

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Is the Google Pixel 8 still worth buying in 2026?

Google's Pixel 8 phone has been around for a few years, so there are plenty of used and refurbished units available.

Technology · Startups

Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting

Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific ru…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers

As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Marshall just revealed its smallest party speaker yet

I guess "reasonably-sized gathering speaker" doesn't have the same ring.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power,…

Technology · Startups

OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports

OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance …

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Vietnamese man charged in $16 million 'pig butchering' crypto scam

A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for his role in a massive "pig butchering" scam, which defrauded a victim out of $16 million worth of cryptocurrency. [...]

Technology · Startups

Starship’s engine failure could slow NASA’s plan to return to the moon

The engine failure on SpaceX’s latest Starship test could make it harder for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon on schedule, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The spacecraft reached o…

Technology · Startups

Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to e…

Technology · Startups

The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS

The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are …

Technology · Startups

ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says

ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner t…

Technology · Startups

AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock

AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as execut…