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Sarah Brady
UK telcos agree protection for vulnerable customers
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has made an agreement with leading telecoms providers to safeguard the most vulnerable users.
Tamara achieves unicorn status with $340m Series C funding
Saudi Arabian fintech firm Tamara has now raised $500m in equity and $400m in debt financing since its inception in 2020.
SaxaVord secures UK’s first vertical launch spaceport license
Saxavord’s licence means it is now the first fully licensed vertical spaceport in Western Europe.
Google to trial curbing advertisers’ tracking cookies
The new Tracking Protection feature will be rolled out in the new year for around 1% of Chrome users.
Temu renews legal battle with Shein
Shein’s valuation has fallen $30bn from a peak of more than $100bn since Temu entered the market in 2022.
Intel releases new AI chip to compete with rivals
The Gaudi3 AI Accelerator will compete with Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), which have dominated the market.
Google unveils Imagen 2 text-to-image
Imagen 2 is a text-to-image AI product designed to compete with OpenAI’s own DALL-E.
Meta launches Threads in the EU after five-month wait
EU users now have access to Threads without a profile to view posts, though they cannot like or interact with them.
OpenAI strikes multi-million euro deal with Axel Springer for news content
Axel Springer will grant access to its archive of publications to OpenAI to help train ChatGPT.
Verve Motion secures £15m in funding for exosuit technology
With practical applications in defense and manufacturing, Exoskeletons will be the fastest growing part of robotics industry between 2022 and 2030, GlobalData predicts.