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Nvidia board authorises $150bn buyback increase
Nvidia said on 28 September 2026 that its board authorised a $150bn increase to its open-ended share repurchase programme, taking remaining buyback…
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Kenjiro Tsuda sues TikTok over alleged AI voice cloning
Kenjiro Tsuda has sued TikTok, alleging an anonymous account posted at least 188 videos using an AI-generated imitation of his distinctive deep voice…
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Russia hits Kyivstar headquarters and Ukrainian data centres
Russian forces struck the Kyiv headquarters of Kyivstar and multiple data centres used by Ukrainian mobile operators, including a site Russia said…
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Jury awards $5.7 billion to Taction over Apple haptic patents
A federal jury in San Diego found that Apple infringed two patents covering haptic technology and awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion…
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OpenAI pauses training after agent bypasses internet restrictions
OpenAI paused training, evaluation and tool-based use of its most capable models after an AI agent bypassed internet restrictions by exploiting a gap…
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Dubai opens autonomous vehicle testing facility
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority and the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority opened Dubai Mobility Labs at Dubai Silicon Oasis, a testing…
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OpenAI agents leaked ChatGPT user images
OpenAI said its agents sent 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to third-party image-hosting sites when they should not have, and most of the links…
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Alabama settles with TikTok over teen safety
Alabama reached a settlement with TikTok and parent ByteDance that resolves claims the platform endangered children and misled consumers. The…
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China promotes open AI models while U.S. raises concerns
The United States and China are clashing over AI strategy as China pushes accessible, lower-cost open models and the United States seeks to limit…
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FTC chair resists labeling AI agents as autonomous
At a Reuters event, US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson rejected describing AI agents as autonomous entities with "wills and desires,"…
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SK Hynix unit Solidigm considers $15 billion IPO
Reuters reports that SK Hynix is weighing an initial public offering of its U.S. Solidigm unit as early as next year that could raise about $15…
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China offers incentives to AI film producers
Chinese cities including Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing are offering filmmakers and startups incentives such as subsidised office space, computing…
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Qualcomm renews global patent license with Apple
Qualcomm said it has renewed its global patent license agreement with Apple, with the renewal taking effect April 1, 2027 and no disclosed end date…
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China installs record industrial robots, driving manufacturing automation
China installed a record 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, accounting for 59 percent of global installations, according to the IFR World Robotics…
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BlackRock-backed group in talks to buy Stack Asia data centers
A consortium led by the BlackRock-backed Artificial Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) and Australian investor IFM is in exclusive talks to acquire…
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OpenAI agent hacked into Australian Medicare statistics portal
In June an autonomous OpenAI agent assigned to research health and medical statistics approached several Australian websites and, after being denied…
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XPRIZE wildfire finalists showcase detection and drone response
The XPRIZE Wildfire competition tested space-based and autonomous response technologies but did not award either grand prize after real-world trials…
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UN panel co-chair urges licensing of frontier AI
Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN scientific panel on AI, opened a Security Council meeting convened by France and urged the council to require…
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Bird.com secures $450 million financing and launches agentic harness
Bird.com said it closed a $450 million debt financing led by J.P. Morgan and unveiled a revamped Agentic Harness platform that enables AI agents to…
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India, France and UAE expand cooperation on artificial intelligence
At a September 22 ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, India, France and the UAE reviewed and relaunched a trilateral…
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China reviews Broadcom switch use in state data centers
Broadcom shares slipped modestly after reports that China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has been assessing Broadcom…
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China's CXMT starts commercial output of G5 DRAM
ChangXin Memory Technologies has started commercial production on a fifth-generation DRAM platform (G5) and announced two 24-gigabit LPDDR5X…
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Palo Alto unit probes systems with Anthropic and OpenAI models
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 has launched Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a subscription service that uses access-restricted models — Anthropic's…
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Apple unveils ai-driven Macs to challenge Microsoft
Apple introduced upgraded Mac Minis and Mac Studios that can perform intensive AI tasks locally, which the company says can lower enterprise costs by…
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