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Keen is the latest experiment from Google’s Area 120.

Despite brutal border clash between India and China, tech bonds will be very hard to break

Almost every startup worth its salt has received investment by Chinese firms, making these bonds very tough to break despite chronic border hostilities.

Prime Minister says Australia is under cyber attack from state-based actor

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Light on detail and refusing to attribute, Scott Morrison says state-based attacks are targeting all levels of government, as well as the private sector.

Honeywell claims to have world’s highest performing quantum computer according to IBM’s benchmark

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Honeywell said JP Morgan Chase and other customers are using its quantum computer in production, which it claims is the most powerful currently in use based on a benchmark established last year by IBM.

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns. [...]

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips. [...]

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk. [...]

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak. [...]

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture. [...]

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue [...]

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using [...]

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new [...]

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel [...]

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the [...]

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CW APAC: Trend Watch – data protection

Data protection watchdog calls for controls on police mobile phone stop-and-searches

EU-backed bid to build data preservation cloud for European research community gathers pace

Cisco patches dangerous Webex vulnerability

Nordic business is leading open banking charge in Europe

Check Point uncovers targeted Microsoft Office 365 phishing campaign

Google launches its own version of Pintrest called Keen

Despite brutal border clash between India and China, tech bonds will be very hard to break

Prime Minister says Australia is under cyber attack from state-based actor

Honeywell claims to have world’s highest performing quantum computer according to IBM’s benchmark