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WATCH: US-based Lyft unit Freenow and Baidu's Apollo Go unveiled the Chinese company's RT6 autonomous vehicle in London and said they hope to launch a driverless robotaxi service in the city in 2027 reut.rs/4yAhO80
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WATCH: Barclays said it is cutting around 5,000 jobs or 5% of its workforce this year, as it uses technology such as AI to slash fixed costs and improve returns. Lawrence White has more reut.rs/4yHt6aT
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WATCH: Customers queued in Shanghai to pick up their orders of Apple's first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, at Asia's largest Apple store, with market watchers betting on whether the device can reinvent the small foldables market reut.rs/48cgxt8
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WATCH: From Washington's focus on crypto scams to Stablecoin's major expansion, Fiona Jones rounds up the crypto stories of the week reut.rs/4dVhARz
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WATCH: From Microsoft pulling out of a major data center deal in the UK to ‘Klara and The Sun’ hitting the big screen, Francis Maguire rounds up the latest stories from the AI revolution reut.rs/4elAMrQ
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WATCH: Microsoft pulled out of a deal to anchor a flagship data center for Nvidia-backed Nscale after power connection delays pushed its expected supply date into the 2030s, highlighting a major obstacle to Britain's AI ambitions reut.rs/4zGzPCL
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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, valued at over $35 billion, two sources said, in a rush for a less powerful but export-compliant chip amid US restrictions on trade with China reut.rs/47xgPdR
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WATCH: From Japan's ambitious space journey to a moon of Mars to Tesla's Roadster taking flight, Francis Maguire rounds up the week's hottest stories in tech reut.rs/4847ryB
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WATCH: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before rival Anthropic's expected public market debut in mid-November, in an unusually fast fundraising that could value the ChatGPT maker at over $1.4 trillion, according to sources reut.rs/4Bh4Mio
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WATCH: Investors are asking whether tech giants are spending too much on AI. John Stoltzfus from Oppenheimer Asset Management told Reuters the risks are real but argues that, given the insatiable appetite for AI, today’s spending spree is no mistake reut.rs/4sb7Msq
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WATCH: The French supermarket fridge cyberattack shows hackers can target everyday physical systems, not just data, raising fears about vulnerabilities in increasingly connected homes and critical infrastructure reut.rs/47kVK6t
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WATCH: Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion, the AI lab's IPO filing shows, deepening a relationship spanning compute supply, equipment leasing and financing that has become a prime example of the reciprocal AI spending reut.rs/4e8TfaV
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WATCH: OpenAI unveiled always-on agents called dots that chase user goals across apps on their own, deepening its push into the lucrative enterprise market and pitting it against Meta in the race to sell AI that can work autonomously reut.rs/3TZ94Kv
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WATCH: Trump said tech executives agreed to establish standards for AI and reiterated his support for the rapid expansion of data centers, as concerns mount over AI safety and the industry's growing footprint in communities reut.rs/4AJXyn2
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WATCH: Protesters gathered outside OpenAI's annual DevDay conference in San Francisco, urging the company to cut military ties, limit government use of its technology and address concerns about AI-driven job losses
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WATCH: Nvidia boosted its share buyback authorization by a record $150 billion, surpassing Apple's $110 billion approval in 2024, as the chip giant's stock trades near its lowest valuation in more than a decade. Alex Cohen has more reut.rs/4ryBfMK
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