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Technology
India's Larsen and Toubro secures AI data centre order worth up to $1.57 billion
Aug 13 (Reuters) - India's Larsen and Toubro on Thursday said it had secured an order worth up to 150 billion rupees ($1.57 billion) from U.S.-based cloud platform Together AI to host an AI data centre using Nvidia's high-performance chips.
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Technology
Starlink starts taking orders for satellite internet service in Vietnam
HANOI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has begun accepting orders in Vietnam, according to the company's local website.
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AI
Outflanked by AI, stars fade for South Korea's blind fortune-tellers
Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.
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Technology
Adyen raises revenue forecast on acquisition boost, shares soar
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Adyen raised its revenue growth forecast on Thursday, sending the shares 11% higher and offering investors some relief after a year during which the Dutch payments processor lost more than a third of its market value.
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Social media
Jury selection begins in Meta youth harms trial in California federal court
Jury selection began on Aug 12 in Meta's federal trial over claims its platforms have harmed youth mental health and also track children in violation of federal law.
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AI
Six AI prompts to turn you into a true professional at work
AI can do so much when it comes to supporting people who have limited professional experience.
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Mobile apps
Apple App Store rate proceeding halted by Supreme Court for now
Apple Inc won a one-day reprieve from the Supreme Court on Aug 12 as Justice Elena Kagan paused proceedings before a California trial court in the iPhone maker's long-running antitrust feud with Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc.
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Technology
Meta says it has taken down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement looms
SYDNEY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday it had taken down more than 750,000 accounts it suspected were held by Australians aged under 16 since a world-first ban on teen accounts, and promised more action in the face of possible regulatory intervention.
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Gadgets
AC vests and UV parasols: East Asia deploys heat-fighting gadgets
The innovations include air-conditioned apparel, refrigerators for humans and hand-held fans that use the science behind semiconductors. Governments are making cooling devices central to heat adaptation.
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Technology
Anthropic in talks to buy Decart AI, source says
Aug 12 (Reuters) - Anthropic is in talks to buy Nvidia-backed startup Decart AI, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the Claude maker explores acquisitions that could help it handle growing demand ahead of its public listing.
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Technology
DeepSeek publicises efforts to challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code
DeepSeek has set up an official social media account and posted job listings for a new team focused on helping develop artificial intelligence agents that can take on services like Anthropic PBC's popular Claude Code.
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AI
UK plans safeguards to stop terrorists using AI for bioweapons
The UK government is planning to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis as officials become increasingly concerned that a lack of global guardrails could make it easier to use the technology to create biological weapons.
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Gadgets
Power bank emitting smoke forces jet to land amid trans-Atlantic trip
Travellers are advised to monitor their electronic devices during flights after a plane flying from Europe to the US was forced to make an unscheduled landing when smoke emerged from a passenger's power bank.
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Technology
Singtel's quarterly profit tops estimates on Optus, digital services strength
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) reported a better-than-expected quarterly underlying net profit on Thursday, fuelled by strong contributions from Optus, regional associates and its digital and data centre businesses.
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Technology
Trump signed memo to allow use of cyber tools to target transnational criminal organizations, White House says
Aug 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that the White House said was aimed at empowering federal law enforcement to use cyber tools against transnational criminal organizations that operate in foreign jurisdictions to attack Americans.
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Technology
Telstra dials up shareholder returns with A$1 billion buyback, posts modest profit rise
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Australia's Telstra Group unveiled a A$1 billion ($705.9 million) share buyback on Thursday and reported a marginal rise in annual profit, driven by growth in its mobile business and higher customer spending.
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Technology
Trump sued over service that offers paid early access to Truth Social posts
NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday by two media entities seeking to shut down a new service that sells paid access to the U.S. president's posts, including some that can move markets, on his Truth Social platform.
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Technology
Cisco forecasts annual revenue above estimates on sustained AI spending
Aug 12 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, signaling confidence that strong demand for its AI networking gear will continue to power growth.
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Technology
Cerebras shares plummet 16% after results fail to impress investors
Aug 12 (Reuters) - AI chip designer Cerebras Systems slumped 16% in extended trading on Wednesday after missing quarterly revenue estimates, suggesting that Wall Street was ready to punish richly valued AI stocks if they slipped up on any key metric.
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Technology
Exclusive-Inside the Google executive moves that led to its big AI reshuffle
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin in recent months has urged key AI staff to go all in on the company's Gemini model as parent Alphabet seeks to close the gap with rivals, two people familiar with his remarks told Reuters.
