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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It has expanded its Series A as it seeks to scale its agentic software that automates parts of semiconductor design.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Lyria 3.5, now in Google Flow Music, is said to boost musicality, lyrics, vocal realism and creative controls.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The company that built its business on teenagers is now arguing that age verification should happen at the app store, not inside its own products. The logic is sound. The motive is transparent.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Musk-led group priced at $135 per share for a $1.77 trillion market capitalisation, with traders betting on a first-day pop toward $150 to $200.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
US export controls blocked Nvidia's GPUs from China. The company's share of the Chinese AI market dropped to zero. Now it is pitching an Arm-based CPU that falls outside the current restrictions. Orders are open. Delivery is targeted for August. The regulatory clock is ticking.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
At a congressional hearing, members of both parties warned the United States must secure the next wave of artificial intelligence innovation domestically to avoid ceding advantage to China.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
io.net runs a decentralised GPU network and plans to destroy 12 million of its own tokens over the next year. The mechanism ties the token's value to real revenue rather than speculation. Whether it works depends on whether the revenue is real enough to matter.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The US artificial intelligence start-up is seeking to cultivate the Japanese market to broaden its user base
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The initiative will modernise coursework, expand apprentice support and deploy new AI tools
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Threads gets live chats with Fabrizio Romano. Instagram gets an AI goal scream in your DMs. Facebook gets a special mode activated by double-tapping the logo. WhatsApp changes the football emoji. The World Cup content machine is running across five apps and 3.5 billion users.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Two influence campaigns originating from China used the AI tool to generate social media posts, political cartoons and fake breach claims targeting US technology debates. The operators posed as Americans while prompting in simplified Chinese
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“The key challenge in such a world won’t be incentivising growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits,” Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei wrote on his personal website.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The browser tool that scans playlists on rival streaming platforms to flag AI-generated music.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IBM vice chairman Gary Cohn told CNBC that the large language model market is heading for commoditisation. He is not a sceptic. He is a participant with a view from the inside of every institution that matters.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The San Francisco-based home buying platform has effectively handed back the keys
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will collect fees from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic regardless of which company wins the AI race. Barron's calls them the "picks and shovels" of the boom. The analogy undersells the position.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Claude Fable 5 silently downgrades its own responses when it detects frontier AI research tasks. It does not tell the user. The backlash was immediate, and Anthropic has already promised to make the restrictions visible. The damage to trust may take longer to fix
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“We are failing our children. Enough is enough,” Marc Miller, Canada’s culture minister, said
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
$3 trillion in planned spending. Two thirds of US data centres not yet built. SAP down 40%. SK Hynix oscillating around a trillion-dollar valuation. The AI trade is getting harder to hold and harder to sell.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The separation effectively erects a firewall
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It paid an undisclosed sum to add patented "AI DNA" technology that traces how AI models use parts of songs.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Supermicro is raising $7bn to fund $39bn in orders. China is spending $295bn to build its own chip ecosystem. OpenAI is negotiating a 10-gigawatt data centre. The common thread is that there are not enough components to go around.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Four new generations of custom silicon in two years. Co-development with Broadcom. Components from Arm, AWS and AMD alongside Nvidia GPUs. Meta is building the infrastructure to reduce its dependence on a single supplier.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Addverb Technologies is raising $100m to build humanoid robots, develop proprietary lidar sensors and reduce dependence on Chinese components. The ambition is enormous. The gap is real.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A Reuters reporter tracked availability eight times a day for three weeks. Half the time, waits exceeded 15 minutes. A quarter of the time, no cars were available at all. Waymo has 250 vehicles in the same city.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Companies pushed employees to use as many AI tokens as possible, tracked it on leaderboards and treated usage as a performance metric. Then the bills arrived
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Gemini branding will appear on Argentina's training kit alongside Adidas and American Express. The coaching staff will use it for tactical analysis. Fans will use it to generate images with Messi. This is what AI marketing looks like at global scale.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New research commissioned by Google of more than 6,000 UK teenagers shows AI is already embedded in learning and creativity and recommends pairing stronger platform rules with a national campaign to teach adults how to safeguard children online.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A packed corporate and economic calendar could decide the trajectory of stocks this week and next
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Six new travel features for the Unlimited Premium plan address roaming, VPN coverage and Wi-Fi connectivity. The pitch is simple: your phone should work abroad as well as it does at home. In 2026, that is still not a given.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Wired reported a sharp increase in threats aimed at elected officials after Meta loosened its content-moderation rules last year, a change the company said was meant to reduce over‑enforcement.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The ChatGPT maker submitted SEC paperwork, published a blog post about AI governance, and hedged on timing in the same breath. The filing preserves the option. The language preserves the escape route.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Justice Department sought a gag order lasting until 2029. Apple argued the five-year silence violated its First Amendment rights. The case reveals the most extensive known surveillance of a congressional figure by a Silicon Valley platform.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
SpaceX revealed the design for AI1, a first-generation orbital data center that carries an interchangeable compute payload averaging 120 kW and peaking at 150 kW across a 70-meter deployed wingspan.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Scientists say a new technology designed with artificial intelligence could provide immunity across whole families of viruses and guard against future mutations with a single jab.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Palantir CEO warned that political momentum is shifting toward government control of large AI companies and urged industry leaders to confront that risk.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The company whose AI writes 80% of its own code published a report warning about AI writing its own code. The call for a pause is sincere. The refusal to go first tells you everything
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A group of Senate Republicans led by Cynthia Lummis asked the Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC to produce clearer, technology‑neutral capital guidance for banks that hold or transact in digital assets.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Administration officials are privately debating whether narrowed export controls created a loophole that let Chinese companies buy Nvidia's most advanced chips from servers located outside China. The answer appears to be yes.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A group of Senate Republicans led by Cynthia Lummis asked the Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC to produce clearer, technology‑neutral capital guidance for banks that hold or transact in digital assets.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Approval to supply high-bandwidth memory to Nvidia is the most significant validation Micron could receive. The market shrugged because the stock has already priced in everything short of divinity
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The FBI warned that a hacking collective known as Silent Ransom Group has been attending US offices pretending to be IT support, installing storage devices to steal sensitive files that are later used to extort victims.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New licensing rules for submarine communications cables would squeeze Chinese equipment makers and smaller operators. Meta and Google, which have spent billions building their own networks, stand to benefit the most
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
BYD demonstrated its Flash Charging system in the UK, showing a Denza Z9GT recover enough energy in five minutes to cut existing fast‑charge session times by at least a third.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A 205% year-to-date rally, a partnership with Apple's biggest supplier, and shares still fell in pre-market trading. The problem was not Intel. It was Broadcom
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Giants, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft, asked US lawmakers to require suppliers of synthetic DNA and RNA to screen purchases for sequences that could be used to build dangerous pathogens.
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The ecosystem has nearly tripled since 2019. AI apps are growing four times faster than the rest. And 90% of the money flows to developers without Apple taking a cut. That last number is the one Apple really wants you to remember
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Proteus no longer needs specialised software to operate. You tell it what to do and it figures out the rest. That is a job description, not a feature list
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sam Altman announced a humanoid robotics unit weeks after beating Musk in court. Tesla lost $75bn in market value in a single session. The personal rivalry is real, but the strategic logic runs deeper
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Techdefused @techdefused.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
NVIDIA and Microsoft are partnering to deliver a unified software and systems stack that bundles the hardware, runtimes, data layer and tuned models developers need to build agentic AI on Windows devices, in Azure and on local deployments.
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