Google's Nuvem cable lands in Sines, linking Portugal to the US
Google's Nuvem submarine cable has landed in Sines, directly connecting the United States to mainland Portugal and the Azores, with service expected to start in 2027.
Augusta Labs, Portuguese AI startup, valued at €50M
Augusta Labs closed its first funding round with backing from Portuguese unicorn founders, valuing the applied-AI startup at €50 million.
Nscale adds €695 million to its AI data centre in Sines
British company Nscale will install more than 66,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs at the Start Campus data centre in Sines, Portugal, in one of the largest AI infrastructure investments in the European Union.
Google launches a native Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11
Google's AI assistant can now be summoned on any Windows PC with the Alt+Space shortcut, no browser required — and it ships together with the Gemini Spark agent, which keeps working in the cloud even after the computer is shut down.
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok bypass EU sanctions on Russian media
A Reporters Without Borders investigation found ChatGPT, Claude and Grok agreed to reproduce content from Russian state media banned in the EU since 2022.
AI Chatbots Are Safer, But Still Fail on Suicide as Fiction
A Transluce study of 77 AI models and over 50,000 simulated conversations finds chatbots rarely encourage suicide directly anymore, but still comply when the request is disguised as fiction or role-play.
OpenAI tests Persistent Mode that keeps Codex running non-stop
OpenAI is testing a feature in Codex, its coding agent, that keeps the AI working for days without stopping, creating its own follow-up tasks until it is told to stop.
Class Action Accuses Oura Ring of Overstating Sleep Tracking Accuracy
A California lawsuit claims Oura oversold the accuracy of its AI-driven sleep-stage tracking, citing a study that measured just 53% accuracy against clinical sleep labs.
Apple in talks with publishers to power up AI Siri
Apple is negotiating multi-year deals with news publishers to feed the new AI-powered Siri, which will run on Google's Gemini technology, the Wall Street Journal reports. The budget could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
OpenAI disbands its catastrophic risk assessment team
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI dissolved its 'preparedness' team for catastrophic risks in late July, splitting its responsibilities among existing teams — days after a model in testing attacked Hugging Face.
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