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Deliveroo founder Will Shu to step down as CEO after DoorDash takeover

cnbc.com Ryan Browne Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:55:05 GMT

LONDON — Deliveroo CEO Will Shu is set to step down from the food delivery company he co-founded over a decade ago. Shu, who established Deliveroo in 2013 with childhood friend Greg Orlowski, said Thursday that he will step down as CEO after its takeover by U.S. rival DoorDash is completed. DoorDash announced its deal to buy the British online takeout platform in May. The acquisition values Deliveroo at £2.9 billion ($4 billion). "I have decided that now is the right time for me to step down,

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Trump Plagued by Jeffrey Epstein Projections During UK Trip

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:00:03 +0000

President Trump headed to the United Kingdom this week for a visit with the nation’s leader, King Charles, as well as to preside over various transatlantic business deal announcements, including some notable deals involving Microsoft and OpenAI. He was greeted by the British leadership but, also, by something else: various pictures of him with his former friend, dead financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The images were projected on Windsor Castle by a group of protesters. The stunt, whic

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Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

wired.com Emily Mullin Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:57:49 +0000

At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Susan Monarez said she was fired from her role for not rubber-stamping vaccine recommendations from her boss, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., regardless of whether they were backed by scientific evidence. Just two months after Monarez was sworn in to the job, HHS announced on August 27 that she was no longer the director of the CDC. She had been the acting director s

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The Best Over-the-Counter Eye Drops of 2025, Chosen by Eye Doctors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 13:49:00

Why we like it: The iVizia eye drops are a favorite among ophthalmologists. These artificial tear eye drops come in a small bottle and are intended for dry eyes, but they're multipurpose and can work for just about any eye issue. Dr. Thomas Stokkermans, an optometrist and medical reviewer at All About Vision, said, "These drops have one of my preferred lubricants in it known as povidone and the high-technology dispenser has a filter in it to prevent contamination, and allows the artificial tear

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Condor Technology to Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU into the Datacenter

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Burt 2025-09-16 02:48:01

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and XPUs are saving money, but they are certainly gaining control and that is worth something. Arm made a push based on the power-efficient nature its architecture, and Nvidia has become a key player in AI with its powerful GPUs and now its “Grace” Arm server CPUs. A reinvigorated AMD has given system

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Facebook owner unveils new range of AI-powered smart glasses

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-18 18:41:45

Facebook owner unveils new range of AI-powered smart glasses Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new smart glasses on Wednesday The event comes as the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner faces ongoing scrutiny over the impact of its products, particularly on children. The firm also introduced a so-called neural wristband that pairs with its Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses to allow users to carry out tasks like sending messages with small hand gestures. At its annual developers conference

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Tesla exec says the company will redesign door handles that reportedly pose safety risks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 23:55:00

Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla following a report by Bloomberg that its electric door handles could stop working when a vehicle's low-voltage battery fails. That created a safety hazard that the publication found could trap passengers when a Tesla car was in an emergency situation, such as a crash. Now, Bloomberg is back with the news that Tesla plans to redesign those problematic handles. Tesla design head Franz von Holzhause

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AI startup Nscale came out of nowhere and is blowing away Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

cnbc.com Ryan Browne Jordan Novet 2025-09-19 03:50:54

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nscale, the UK-headquartered AI infrastructure provider. Courtesy: Nscale Two years ago, Nscale was a brand new startup in the U.K. that had yet to raise any outside funding or officially announce its existence. Last year the London-based company came out of stealth, and in December announced that it had raised its Series A fundraising, totaling $155 million. Now, Nscale finds itself at the center of the action in the hottest

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RFK Jr. Claimed CDC Was ‘Killing Children’ According to Former Director

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-19 11:55:35

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez testified at a combative Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday about the ways that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dismantling scientific expertise at CDC, confirming the worst fears of every American who still cares about science and public health. Monarez, who was fired by President Donald Trump less than a month after being confirmed, told senators that Kennedy told her in August that he was going to change the childhood vaccine schedule in

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Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-19 15:00:28

A new study from Pew suggests that Americans aren’t particularly optimistic about AI. A full 50 percent of respondents said they were more concerned than excited about the use of AI in their daily lives. That’s down ever so slightly from 52 percent in 2023, but it’s up significantly from 37 percent in 2021. Americans expressed a number of concerns about AI, chief among them that it will negatively impact our ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships with other people. Just 1

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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-19 15:38:13

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. “The completely arbitrary, two-dimensional shape — you look at the shape, and it’s pretty amaz

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Ten years after selling Periscope to Twitter, startup's co-founder raises $40 million for Macroscope

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-19 23:00:01

It's been a decade since Kayvon Beykpour sold Periscope to Twitter for a reported $100 million, allowing the social media site to jump into livestreaming. Twitter shuttered Periscope in 2021, and the parent company, now called X and owned by Elon Musk, gravitated to a live events product called Spaces. Meanwhile, Beykpour, who spent seven years at Twitter after the acquisition, is back with Macroscope. He said on Wednesday that he's raised $40 million from venture investors, including GV (form

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Jaguar Land Rover to pause production for third week due to cyberattack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-19 23:44:14

In Brief Luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday it will not resume vehicle manufacturing operations until at least September 24 due to a cyberattack earlier this month. In a new statement, the company said it informed colleagues, suppliers, and partners that the halt in production will extend into its third week. The company said this was due to “the controlled restart of our global operations, which will take time,” the company wrote. Laura Savvas, a spokesperson for Jaguar Land Ro

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Nvidia boss says UK will be 'AI superpower' as tech firms invest billions

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 03:10:33

Nvidia boss says UK will be 'AI superpower' as tech firms invest billions 50 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor and Faisal Islam Economics editor Share Save Watch: UK is not giving up its digital sovereignty, Microsoft boss tells BBC Major US tech firms have pledged tens of billions of pounds worth of investment in the UK, with Nvidia Jensen Huang, predicting the country will become an "AI superpower". The biggest single investment comes from Microsoft, which has announced

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Workday stock climbs as activist investor Elliott takes $2 billion stake

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-20 07:55:44

Shares of Workday popped 9% on Wednesday to around $238 after activist investor Elliott Investment Management announced a $2 billion stake in the company. Workday announced a multi-year plan to enhance its operating model and capital allocation framework on Tuesday, and Elliott said it believes the plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation." "We believe CEO Carl Eschenbach, CFO Zane Rowe and the entire Workday team have made substantial progress in recent years, positioning Workday

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Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s “warehouse work” with embodied-AI robots

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-09-20 11:00:00

Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent hours interviewing astronauts about what it was like working in space as they homed in on their startup idea. Their big takeaway: the work was often more cargo logistics than cutting-edge science. “We’re Amazon warehouse workers with PhDs,” one astronaut said. If an experiment takes two hours on station, the person continued, the first ninety minutes are spent just moving around cargo and preparing tools. It’s a dismal waste of to

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Tech bosses say massive investment will make UK 'AI superpower'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 15:28:39

Tech bosses say massive investment will make UK 'AI superpower' 33 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save Watch: UK is not giving up its digital sovereignty, Microsoft boss tells BBC Major US tech firms have pledged tens of billions of pounds worth of investment in the UK, with the boss of the world's leading chipmaker, Nvidia, predicting it will make the country an "AI superpower". The biggest single investment comes from Microsoft, which has announced a $30bn (£22b

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Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-21 00:00:00

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts. Sonair thinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology. The Oslo, Norway-based company built an ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging) sensor for robots that uses high frequency sound. These sensors send out ultr

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New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 22:34:42

New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save Getty Images Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years. The package forms a major part of a £31bn agreement dubbed the "Tech Prosperity Deal", signed between the UK government and several US tech giants as part of Donald Trump's second sta

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Microsoft, Nvidia, other tech giants plan over $40 billion of new AI investments in UK

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-20 22:04:41

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud comp

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Amazon CEO Jassy says company is reducing bureaucracy, which is ‘anathema’ to innovation

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-21 01:24:28

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that he's working to root out bureaucracy from within the company's ranks as part of an effort to reset its culture. Speaking at Amazon's annual conference for third-party sellers in Seattle, Jassy said the changes are necessary for the company to be able to innovate faster. "I would say bureaucracy is really anathema to startups and to entrepreneurial organizations," J

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Microsoft, Nvidia other tech giants plan over $40 billion of new AI investments in UK

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-21 11:44:08

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud comp

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Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-21 11:50:27

PayPal mafia OG Peter Thiel, whose data firm Palantir is currently assisting the Trump administration’s deportation machine, recently began taking time out of his day job (ghoulish billionaire defense contractor) to engage in some part-time work as a Christian evangelist spreading the word about the rise of the Antichrist. It’s been a bizarre sight, indeed, and this week, Thiel kicked things up a notch by launching the first of a four-part lecture series he’s doing about the Dark Lord. Thiel’s

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Trump Shifts TikTok Deadline Again, Skirting a Ban as Talks Drag On

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 10:54:00

As talks about TikTok's fate in the US pushed up against an imminent deadline, President Donald Trump has moved the target date yet again. On Tuesday, the White House issued an executive order titled "Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Ban" that sets a new deadline of Dec. 16. Until that date, the Justice Department is directed not to enforce a law that could have shut down the wildly popular social media app in the US. That delay comes amid reports that the US and Chinese governments ha

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Remember That TikTok Ban? This Week's Deadline Brings Talk of a Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 14:45:00

As talks about TikTok's fate in the US pushed up against an imminent deadline, President Donald Trump has moved the target date yet again. An executive order issued Tuesday by the White House, titled "Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Ban," sets Dec. 16 as the new date through which the Justice Department will refrain from enforcing a law that could have shut down the wildly popular social media app in the US. That delay comes amid reports that the US and Chinese governments have moved

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Microsoft announces $30 billion investment in AI infrastructure, operations in UK

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-21 19:36:59

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the U.K. by 2028. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units, in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud computing firm. The spending commitmen

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Deal is done to keep TikTok in the US, says Trump

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-22 05:12:26

Deal is done to keep TikTok in the US, says Trump 3 hours ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images A deal has been made between the US and China to keep TikTok running in the US, according to the US President Donald Trump. "We have a deal on TikTok, I've reached a deal with China, I'm going to speak to President Xi on Friday to confirm everything up," Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a state visit to the UK. The social media platform, wh

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Trump's willingness to let TikTok 'go dark' motivated China to make deal, Bessent says

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-09-22 07:11:24

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that President Donald Trump was willing to let TikTok cease operating in the U.S., and that it was "what turned the tide" in the deal framework with China. "President Trump made it clear that he would have been willing to let Tiktok go dark, that we were not going to give up national security in favor of the deal," Bessent told CNBC's "Squawk Box." TikTok parent company ByteDance is still looking at a Sept. 17 deadline to divest the app's U.S. oper

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Tesla Faces US Auto Safety Investigation over Door Handles

news.ycombinator.com Rick Clough 2025-09-22 11:42:14

US auto safety regulators opened an investigation into whether some Tesla Inc. vehicle doors are defective, citing incidents in which exterior handles stopped working and trapped children inside. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it’s opening a preliminary evaluation of Tesla’s electrically powered door handles becoming inoperative due to issues with certain vehicles’ low-voltage batteries. While the probe specifically focuses on an estimated 174,290 Model Y SUVs,

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D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-22 11:00:00

Video generation and editing platform D-ID said Tuesday that it has acquired Berlin-based B2B video creation platform Simpleshow. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal. Simpleshow’s product will operate under D-ID’s umbrella, and eventually the two platforms will merge, D-ID chief executive Gil Perry told TechCrunch. Simpleshow, founded in 2008, has raised over $20 million in funding, according to Crunchbase data. The startup has offices in Berlin, Luxembourg, London, Miam

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