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Scammers use Artificial Intelligence to pose as UK family businesses

9 Oct 2025

Foreign firms are using Artificial Intelligence-generated images and fabricated back stories to impersonate family-run UK boutiques and lure shoppers, often via social media ads. Customers report poor-quality goods, high return costs and misleading claims about where companies are based.

artificial intelligence, consumer protection, fraud, social media

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Cisco unveils Silicon One P200 to meet rising Artificial Intelligence data center demand

9 Oct 2025

Cisco introduced the Silicon One P200-based 8223 system, a 51.2 Tbps Ethernet fixed router designed to scale Artificial Intelligence data center interconnects beyond 3 exabits per second. The launch targets bandwidth, power and security constraints as enterprises expand training clusters across longer distances.

artificial intelligence, cisco, data center, networking, semiconductors

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Nvidia and Intel shift from rivalry to a chip partnership

9 Oct 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says decades of rivalry with Intel have given way to a strategic partnership focused on advanced chips. The alliance targets progress in Artificial Intelligence and high-performance computing.

artificial intelligence, intel, nvidia, semiconductors

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What Meta’s purchase of Rivos says about RISC-V

9 Oct 2025

Meta has acquired Rivos, a startup that taped out a CUDA-compatible RISC-V processor, signaling that Nvidia’s grip on Artificial Intelligence infrastructure may face new pressure from open architectures.

meta, nvidia, processors, risc-v

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Zendesk says its new Artificial Intelligence agent can solve 80% of support issues

9 Oct 2025

At its Artificial Intelligence summit, Zendesk unveiled an autonomous support agent it says can resolve 80 percent of customer issues, alongside a suite of companion agents. Early pilots show higher satisfaction scores as the company leans on recent acquisitions to power analytics and automation.

automation, customer support, large language models, zendesk

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Grafana Assistant artificial intelligence for CAN bus data lakes and dashboards

9 Oct 2025

Grafana Assistant brings large language model capabilities into Grafana so engineers can chat with data lakes, run queries, and auto-build dashboards. The article tests it on a 1 GB Kia EV6 dataset and details setup, strengths, limits, and support.

data visualization, grafana, large language models, telematics

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Sora’s staying power, costs, and legal risks

9 Oct 2025

OpenAI’s Sora is surging with a feed of exclusively Artificial Intelligence-generated clips, but key questions loom over engagement, costs, and legality. Here is what we know about its staying power, the energy and monetization math, and the copyright and cameo risks.

content moderation, copyright, generative video, openai, platform economics

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Lithium extraction bets, questions about OpenAI’s Sora, and sodium-ion batteries

9 Oct 2025

A lithium startup is testing a new extraction method on the Great Salt Lake as OpenAI’s Sora app surges and sodium-ion batteries edge toward market. Today’s newsletter also rounds up key tech headlines and a new take on humans in space.

artificial intelligence, climate tech, energy, openai, space

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Artificial Intelligence toys surge in China and land on US shelves

9 Oct 2025

China has become a hotspot for Artificial Intelligence-enabled toys, with startups like Haivivi’s BubblePal and FoloToy scaling fast and pushing overseas. Early parent reviews praise screen-free play but flag glitches and voice recognition limits.

artificial intelligence, china tech, consumer tech, toys

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DOE review puts two major direct air capture hubs at risk

9 Oct 2025

An internal Department of Energy list indicates potential termination of initial awards for two flagship direct air capture projects, even as officials say no final decisions have been made. The uncertainty is reverberating across developers and industry groups.

carbon capture, climate tech, energy policy, united states

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MrBeast warns of ‘scary times’ for creators as Artificial Intelligence video platforms like Sora rise

8 Oct 2025

MrBeast says Artificial Intelligence video tools could upend YouTube’s creator economy, warning of “scary times” after OpenAI’s Sora launch and Meta’s Vibes rollout.

creator economy, openai, social media, video generation

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MrBeast warns ‘scary times’ ahead for creator economy amid artificial intelligence video advancements

8 Oct 2025

MrBeast voiced concern that advances in artificial intelligence video generation could upend YouTube and threaten creators’ livelihoods. His warning follows a blitz of new tools from major platforms accelerating automated video production.

artificial intelligence, creator economy, social media, youtube