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The UK's Cabinet Office AI tool, the Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator, helped recover £480 million lost to fraud from April 2024 to April 2025. It cross-references government data to detect fraudulent activities, including Covid-related fraud, unlawful c...

UNSW Sydney startup Diraq, in partnership with imec, has achieved over 99% fidelity in silicon-based quantum chips using industrial manufacturing processes. This breakthrough confirms commercial viability and marks a major step toward scalable, utility-sc...

Taiwan suspended chip export controls on South Africa just two days after imposing them, following South Africa's agreement to enter talks over a diplomatic dispute involving Taiwan's representative offices. The quick reversal highlights Taiwan's hesitanc...

British AI infrastructure startup Nscale has raised a record $1.1 billion in Series B funding, backed by Aker ASA, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. The investment accelerates Nscale’s global data center rollout, including the UK’s largest AI supercomputer, and sign...

Google and Qualcomm confirmed the merger of Android and ChromeOS into a unified platform for PCs and smartphones. Qualcomm's CEO praised its "incredible" convergence and market potential. The new OS aims to challenge Windows, promising AI integration, bet...

BTQ Technologies has received approval to list its common shares on the Nasdaq Global Market, with trading set to begin September 26, 2025, under the symbol "BTQ." The uplisting aims to accelerate growth by expanding investor access. Shares will stop trad...

Starbucks is finalizing the sale of a controlling stake in its China business, valued at about $5 billion based on projected 2025 earnings. Top private equity firms Carlyle, EQT, HongShan, and Boyu are among the finalists bidding. Starbucks will retain a...

The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a massive SIM farm network near the UN headquarters in New York, capable of crippling cell towers and jamming 911 calls. With 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards, the network posed a severe threat to city telecommunication...

Chinese scientists plan a lunar communication network with 30 satellites and 3 ground stations between Earth and the Moon. The system will support real-time audio, video, and images for 20+ space travelers while providing precise navigation and tracking o...

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for next-gen AI infrastructure. NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion, starting with the first gigawatt in late 2026. This will power advanced AI models with mill...

TrumpRx is a proposed White House initiative to launch a Trump-branded website helping consumers find discounted prescription drugs. It aims to increase transparency, reduce costs by bypassing middlemen, and align U.S. prices with global levels. The site...

Extensive tests reveal OpenAI’s Sora can closely mimic popular media styles from Netflix shows, TikTok videos, movies, and Twitch streams, suggesting training on related datasets. This breakthrough advances video synthesis, offering transformative potenti...

China's market regulator has launched an investigation into Chengdu Kuaigou Technology, a Kuaishou subsidiary, for suspected violations of e-commerce laws amid growing scrutiny of the live-stream shopping sector. The probe targets issues like false market...

China has banned its top tech companies from purchasing Nvidia's latest AI chips, aiming to boost domestic chip development and tighten control over key AI hardware. This move intensifies the tech rivalry between the U.S. and China while challenging Nvidi...

Meta is unveiling its latest AI-powered smart glasses at the Meta Connect 2025 event on September 17. These next-gen glasses feature a compact display and hand gesture controls via a wristband, blending augmented reality with AI to offer users notificatio...

Groq is an AI chip startup specializing in high-performance Language Processing Unit (LPU) chips and data center compute solutions. In 2025, Groq raised $750 million led by Disruptive at a $6.9 billion valuation. The company powers fast, efficient AI infe...