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Second UK train derails in less than 24 hours

Incident in Essex follows derailment of train in East Sussex on Thursday

Exclusive: Claude Was Put in Charge of Human Workers—and Fired One

A version of Claude that was put in charge of running a retail store—including managing a team of real human workers—fired its first employee last month, in a move described by researchers as a watershed moment in AI’s impact on the economy. The news has not previously been reported.

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file

New copper tech is having a moment

The Trump administration is poised to support new technologies.

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

Investors pile back into US stocks as bullishness returns to Wall Street

Stellar earnings season and falling inflation fuel rebound from July’s chip rout

SpaceX's $60 Billion Acquisition of Cursor Officially Closed

SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor on Friday. The companies were already sharing compute and training data.

Evidence of unfair use: AI books squeeze human authors out of the market

Anthropic's AI training using millions of used books raised copyright concerns. The market impact of AI-generated content is a key issue.

Exclusive: Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

You're one app install away from a team that takes on your biggest jobs.

I’m having more fun with Grok Bot than anything I’ve touched this year. It’s the first AI product I’d hand to someone who has never used one, and here are the two Bots I’d start with.

Why Homer will outlast us all

Heated rows over $1bn-grossing movie reflect The Odyssey’s enduring force

US nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has the home-court advantage’

The architect of the 2015 deal with Tehran on how to prevent a new Middle East arms race