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Poster in Aramco blue with the Aramco name and the words 'Oil giant takes 49%'

Aramco now owns 49% of Saudi AI company HUMAIN. Why an oil giant is buying into AI data centres

The Aramco HUMAIN deal has closed: Aramco owns 49% of Saudi Arabia's AI company for about US$2.6bn in cash plus assets. What it means and what to watch.

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India's NVS-03 satellite clears the step where its sister NVS-02 failed

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Poster in black with the xAI name and the words 'Temporary turbines? Permits needed'

Judge lets the NAACP's clean-air case over xAI's Mississippi turbines go ahead

Three iPhones showing Apple Intelligence in Chinese: Genmoji, a Type to Siri box and Mail summaries

Apple Intelligence finally comes to China, with Alibaba's Qwen inside Siri

Google's Project Suncatcher satellite sends its first AI answer from orbit: a haiku

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S&P keeps Meta at AA- but turns its outlook negative over AI spending

DoorDash Instacart acquisition poster with both company logos and the words 'Two apps, one membership'

DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for about US$17bn, promising one membership instead of two

Reddit earnings: revenue jumps 53%, but search visits fall and logged-out browsing faces a test

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Artist's impression of ESA's Hera spacecraft flying over the rocky, boulder-covered surface of the asteroid Dimorphos

One dot becomes two: ESA's Hera sees the asteroid pair NASA's DART hit

ISRO's GSLV-F18 rocket carrying the NVS-03 satellite on its launch pad between red-and-white lightning towers

India's NVS-03 satellite clears the step where its sister NVS-02 failed

Technicians in white clean-room suits work on a Voyager spacecraft and its big dish antenna at JPL in 1977

Voyager 1 went quiet for two days. NASA got it back, and still wants to know why

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The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro OLED models side by side, with a Dynamic Island at the top of each screen

Apple's first touchscreen Mac is an OLED MacBook Pro, and it starts at US$2,899

Apple's new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro, half open, in front of a glowing M6 chip name

Apple's M6 MacBook Pro and iMac arrive at last year's prices, with older Macs in their sights

Close-up of the iPhone Duo's metal hinge, half folded, from Apple's launch images

iPhone Duo screen cracks: iFixit's teardown points to the hinge, but Apple hasn't explained why

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Northflank hack: every stored secret may be exposed, as stolen AI keys spread across developer platforms

Binance hack: withdrawals paused as billions leave its hot wallets, and Binance says user funds are safe

Google's privacy policy now lets connected Gmail and Photos data shape ads

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GTA 6 leads Jason and Lucia escaping on a dirt bike as a police car and helicopter chase them through Vice City

GTA 6 launch trailer lands: Grand Theft Auto VI arrives 19 November on PS5 and Xbox, with no PC date

The new white Tesla Roadster with both doors open and a large rear wing, in a dark studio

Tesla's new Roadster flew in a Texas demo, but buyers still have no price or delivery date

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