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“Maxxing” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, and “data centre” was on the shortlist it beat
A suffix that attaches to anything, chosen by a dictionary measuring social media. The runners-up say more about 2026 than the winner does.
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He burned a goat, generated a photograph of his own cremation, and got a real death certificate — the murder trial stopped for eighteen months
The generated image was the cheap part. What makes this a technology story is that a municipal records process accepted photographs as…
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SpaceX has leased $40bn of chips it will not own, and Musk says most of the 200-odd companies renting GPUs will not survive
The structure matters more than the number: SpaceX gets the compute without the chips ever appearing on its balance sheet as assets it…
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The owners of Elvis’s songs are suing Anthropic for $41m — and the strongest line in their complaint is a quote from Claude
Anthropic says it will defend the case fully. It is the third music-rights suit in ten months, and it lands in the same week as the…
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Anthropic filed 335 pages, and the number that should worry investors is not the loss — it is that five customers are a quarter of the business
The paperwork for what may be the largest stock listing in history is out. The existential-risk language has been there since September…
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Gabon has switched social media back on after eight months, in a country where blackouts were the old government’s habit
Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are reachable again for 2.5 million people. The eight months in between are a short lesson in what…
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An Indian cartoonist vanished from Instagram inside his own country, twice in three weeks, with no explanation
Political satire has moved online in India, and so has the machinery for restricting it. The cartoonists get no reason, no notice and no…
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Solar has quietly overtaken nuclear worldwide, and Pakistan went from 2 per cent to 24 per cent out of people’s own pockets
A decade ago solar was 1 per cent of world electricity. This year it reaches about 10 per cent and passes nuclear. The part that matters…
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A crime map drawn from where police already looked: researchers warn AI policing can prove itself right
Predictions of future crime are trained on past police records. Where those records reflect where officers were sent rather than where…
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A new French literary prize is only for AI-assisted books, and you must submit your prompts with the manuscript
A month after France’s Goncourt prize dropped a novel over AI allegations, three entrepreneurs have created an award that requires the…
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She is 96, has 15 million followers, and pays a $12,000 monthly nursing home bill with brand deals
A cohort of women in their seventies, eighties and nineties have turned late-life social media into a business. The interesting part is why…
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A barber in Bengaluru wears a camera for six hours a day so a robot can learn to hold a razor
Physical AI cannot be trained on scraped text. It needs footage of human hands doing real work with the right amount of force — and that…