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Australia has passed a 2.5% levy on the local ad revenue of Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn unless they strike deals with eight news businesses.

Cambridge startup Callosum has raised $100m for software that spreads AI workloads across mixed chips, with the UK's public AI fund among backers.

A UC Berkeley maths professor's op-ed on falling standards was flagged as partly AI-assisted, yet she says she used AI only to edit.

Hangzhou put 15 humanoid robots on traffic duty in May. They direct cars and spot violations, but enforcement stays with human officers.

Revolut has asked shareholders to raise Nik Storonsky's borrowing limit against his stake from $50mn to $250mn under a plan codenamed Project Shasta.

Former Meta engineer Arturo Béjar told an Oakland jury that company culture made safety fixes impossible, in a trial brought by four states.

The SEC proposed token exemptions and a conditional safe harbour on Tuesday. On Wednesday Trump hosted crypto executives at the White House.

Wang Xingxing told the World Robot Conference that embodied AI is nearing a "ChatGPT moment", then gave it a two to 10 year window.

Odense-based Velatir has raised 5m co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures, six months after its pre-seed.

Avec's new feature scans messages for due dates and resurfaces them on the day. It is iOS and Gmail only, and unsupported outside the US and Canada.