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Technology
DeepSeek to raise at least $12 billion in Tencent-backed funding, Bloomberg News reports
Oct 6 (Reuters) - DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion) in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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AI
Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors
Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments.
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Smart home
Apple’s new gadgets may be home security cameras. The twist? They won’t actually record video
How does a company like Apple reconcile privacy with home surveillance? The answer may be a clever use of AI.
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AI
AI anxiety is spilling into the therapist’s office
Patients and providers are processing their uncertainty in real time.
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Mobile apps
Google faces UK court over app store charges
A class action lawsuit against Google opens in London on Oct 6, with the technology giant accused of earning excessive commissions from its app store.
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AI
'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower
Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign.
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Technology
South Korea plans to develop $3.5 billion frontier AI model starting next year
SEOUL, Oct 6 (Reuters) - South Korea plans to launch a 4.7 trillion won ($3.5 billion) programme to develop a frontier AI model from March 2027, the science ministry said, as Seoul seeks to compete in the race to build cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
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Technology
Google, Constellation near deal for nuclear power, Bloomberg News reports
Oct 5 (Reuters) - Google's parent Alphabet is nearing a multi-year deal to buy nuclear energy from Constellation Energy for $1 billion or more, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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AI
Italy’s Meloni follows pop stars in seeking to trademark her voice to combat AI deepfakes
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice with the European Union's Intellectual Property Office, seeking to protect herself against AI-generated deepfakes.
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Technology
Exclusive-Accenture contractor removed from FBI following damaging data breach, sources say
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Gadgets
Norway eyes partial ban of smart glasses
Norway's government said on Oct 5 it wants a temporary ban on the use of smart glasses in certain public places, citing privacy concerns, notably recording images without the knowledge of those filmed.
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Technology
Anthropic tells Australia it's open to laws requiring reporting of AI agent hacks
SYDNEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Anthropic does not believe its products have breached Australian government systems but would be open to Australian laws requiring AI companies to disclose data breaches, company executives told an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday.
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Technology
DayOne Data Centers files for US IPO
Oct 5 (Reuters) - DayOne Data Centers filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Monday.
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Technology
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open models
Oct 5 (Reuters) - Nvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi in coding and agentic tasks.
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Technology
McDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - McDonald's has been sued in federal court in Chicago in a proposed nationwide class action alleging the fast-food company illegally coordinates menu prices across its franchises and company-owned restaurants through an AI-powered pricing system.
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Technology
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates online encyclopedia Wikipedia, said heavy traffic from OpenAI's rogue agents was possibly tied to a disruption that its data service experienced in May.
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Technology
US commodities regulator proposes new federal crypto oversight rules
Oct 5 (Reuters) - The US commodities regulator proposed on Monday a new federal framework for cryptocurrency exchanges that offer leveraged digital asset trading, seeking to bring parts of the spot crypto market under federal oversight weeks after Congress failed to advance comprehensive crypto regulation.
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Technology
Meta, TikTok, X challenge UK watchdog over online safety data demands
LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Meta, TikTok and X are challenging British regulator Ofcom over the amount of information it is demanding they provide under Britain's nascent online safety regime.
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Technology
Nvidia, Broadcom shielded as AI power crunch hits chip supply chain, says Morgan Stanley
Oct 5 (Reuters) - Nvidia and Broadcom are relatively insulated from a worsening US data-center power crunch, but any resultant delay in AI deployments can affect makers of memory, optical and other secondary chip components, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.
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Technology
German robot startup RobCo hits $1 billion valuation, CEO moves to US
AMSTERDAM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - German robotics maker RobCo on Monday said it had passed a $1 billion valuation and that its CEO Roman Holzl had relocated to the United States to focus on the company's fastest-growing market.
