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Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid ad...

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company t...

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Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral

Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthly plans and a basis for business lending...

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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later

SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the cit...

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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks

OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The E...

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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens

California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 20...

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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning

AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmoni...

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TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawat...

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More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says

A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more than adding power, with eight-plug sites re...

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