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- Portugal wants to teach AI to 100,000 SME workers. It starts in October, at a mould factory in Marinha Grande
- TEKEVER is now worth $6.4 billion, after raising another $580 million
- Half of Observador's visits used to come from Google. That traffic is now shrinking
- Spain has handed data centres about 12 GW of grid access. Its own 2030 plan asked for four
- Which sign language does the Pixel 11 read? American, and only American
- The people who broke into OpenAI's internal code spent less than 3,000 dollars doing it
- 12 fast chargers just opened on the A8, and 2 of them fit a lorry
- ESA's new FLEX satellite measures photosynthesis from 814 kilometres up
- Portugal's biggest telecoms operator was knocked over three times in one night by a DDoS attack
- Three AI rivals agreed to slow down. The US president took a day to disagree
- What speed is home internet in Portugal? As of this quarter, mostly a gigabit
- Amazon just bought six more Ariane 6 flights, taking its European order to 24
- Portugal's regulator wants your new broadband provider to pay €23 for every day you are left offline
- Europe's first commercial rocket reached orbit on Saturday. The Azores spaceport is still waiting
- Brussels wants your ID, your diploma and your income statement in one app by 24 December
- The LZ experiment has one dark matter event it cannot explain
- NOS put ads on 821,641 customers' TV recordings without telling them. It cost €350,000
- The world's largest naval robotics exercise is running off Setúbal until 25 September
- Sony says you always knew you never owned that game. Brussels answered a different question in June
- Sword Health is buying Headspace, five years after a 3-billion-dollar valuation
- Apple's September event is set for the 9th. A different CEO will be on stage
- What changed in WhatsApp security this week? Your six-digit PIN is now a full password
- Abrantes has cleared a second mega data centre. The two together could draw 19 times the town's power
- This bill would stop Portuguese public services asking you for papers the state already holds
- DIGI added 171,000 services in Portugal in a single year
- Which Portuguese villages get fibre next? 1,967 of them, across 288 municipalities
- Who owns the data your car collects? From 12 September, the EU answers that
- Brazil is buying a supercomputer to teach AI Portuguese
- The one letter that turned Instagram's new logo into a joke
- ESA's Venus orbiter has a Coimbra company on board
- The Milky Way's fastest star laps our black hole every 8.7 years. Four of the scientists who found it work in Portugal
- Have your say on Portugal's mobile spectrum before 27 August
- Why France's under-15 social media ban collapsed (and why Portugal's version is built differently)
- The Portuguese drone maker worth €1.2bn last year is now chasing €5.5bn
- What to do if Apple tells you your iPhone was targeted by spyware
- Thinking of a Pixel 11 when it reaches Portugal on 20 August? Start with the footnotes
- New YouTube channels will need 8,000 watch hours from February 2027
- This is the AI bottleneck nobody argues about, and Samsung thinks stacking fixes it
- TSMC has never had a July like this one: NT$467.58bn, up 44.7% in a year
- Publishers say books traded on Telegram and WhatsApp are costing them more than €75 million
- Suno will stamp every track its AI makes (and clamp down on mass downloads)
- Your phone should finally hold a signal on Lisbon's Blue Line
- This robot reached a lung nodule in Lisbon in just over 40 minutes
- Apple says an ex-engineer walked off with its hardware files. OpenAI wants the case thrown out
- Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become Alphabet's chief scientist
- Portugal beats the EU on fibre and 5G, and trails it on knowing what to do with them
- The Coimbra company that tracks 600 satellites just raised €15.6 million
- Apple pulled Telegram worldwide over child abuse material. It was back within hours
- Tekever will replace the British Army's Watchkeeper drones in a deal worth up to £400m
- Water-system cyberattacks have now hit seven US states, and the FBI is looking at Iran
- Guimarães is getting Portugal's new advanced computing data centre for €5.1 million
- The AI Act now makes chatbots and deepfakes identify themselves, starting today
- Zoox can now charge for rides in a car with no steering wheel, and that has never been allowed in the US before
- Apple booked $109.4bn and the stock still fell — the problem is what comes next
- PlayStation boxes will have no disc inside them from 2028
- Instituto Superior Tecnico is getting a 6.9 million euro AI and digital economy centre
- Tesla opened its Superchargers for free to people fleeing the wildfires
- Europe's AI gigafactories are open for bids, and Portugal is in the race with Sines
- More than a thousand OpenAI, Google and Meta staff signed a letter asking for a brake on AI
- Tim Cook is stepping back and John Ternus takes over Apple on 1 September
- China is now building its own lithography machines, and Europe is the one getting nervous
- Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its top model, and that lands squarely on whoever pays the bill
- Google's Nuvem cable has landed in Sines, and it puts Portugal one hop from the United States
- Nvidia is in talks to guarantee 250 billion dollars so OpenAI can lease an Ohio data centre
- Jensen Huang joined X just to argue America cannot afford to close AI
- Apple Maps is moving into Ford's electric cars, iPhone not required
- Japan pulled 44 companies into a sovereign AI consortium and bet the lot on robots
- AMD just put 256 cores in a single processor and called it EPYC Venice
- Google was fined 890 million by Brussels and has 60 days to redesign search
- Apple will soon let you lease your iPhone instead of buying it
- Portugal wants data centres spread across the country — and is prepping six new industrial zones
- OpenAI's new Presence puts AI agents on the phone and in the chat window for companies
- YouTube is cracking down on 'AI slop' and just changed its monetisation rules
- Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra in London — and slipped in a wider Fold too
- Microsoft is bankrolling Mistral's European data centres — and the deal runs into the billions
- China's Kimi K3 sold out in three days — Moonshot ran out of GPUs before it ran out of users
- Google is building a chip tailor-made for Gemini — and the stock popped 3% on the news
- Databricks is now worth $188 billion — and it still hasn't gone public
- AliExpress just got a record 550-million-euro fine from Brussels over illegal products
- The Pentagon is pushing AI into its weapons — and testing a line that used to be red
- Gemini 3.5 Pro flunked its own tests and Google hit pause — wiping 200 billion dollars in a day
- Apple Intelligence is coming to China powered by Alibaba's Qwen — and markets loved it
- Chip stocks just sank — all it took was OpenAI getting efficient and Meta showing off Iris
- Google must open Android to rivals in Europe, and the clock is already ticking
- San Francisco wants AI 'nudify' apps thrown out of Apple and Google's stores
- Xi Jinping opened China's biggest AI summit for the first time — and the message had a clear addressee
- Kimi K3 is the biggest open AI model ever built — and it puts China one step behind America's best
- OnePlus is leaving Europe, and owners are left wondering what comes next
- Waze just got Gemini voice controls — and a mode that finally shuts up
- The AI Act gets serious on August 2 — here's what changes for anyone using AI in Portugal
- Meta killed the Instagram AI feature that copied public profiles' photos — it lasted three days
- An AI-made Odyssey tried to crash Nolan's premiere — the internet answered with one word: slop
- China has banned AI boyfriends — and millions are in mourning
- Nobody passed the AI safety exam, and Europe's Mistral came ninth out of nine
- New York just told AI data centers to wait, and no US state had done that before
- Helsing: Europe's AI defence startup is now valued at $18 billion
- Tekever buys Cloudsweep: the drone unicorn doubles down on AI
- New cars in the EU must now watch the driver's attention
- Pixel 11 launch set for August 12: Google books a prime-time event in New York
- Apple sues OpenAI over trade secret theft in the AI hardware race
- Portuguese graphene could make drones near-invisible to radar — and the Air Force will test it
- AI kidnapping scam in Coimbra: fraudsters faked a ransom photo of a missing woman
- ACITI: India, Australia and Canada launch tech and critical minerals pact
- School apps in Portugal now require prior certification under new decree
- Meta accused by Brussels: Instagram and Facebook 'addictive design' breaches EU digital law
- Google Search breaks all-time record for queries per second — thanks to the World Cup
- Portugal Ventures invests €2.7M in three tech companies from Leiria
- Porto climbs more than 15 places in the 2026 global startup ranking
- Ciência e Inovação 2026: Lisbon hosts Portugal's science summit on 15-16 July
- Proxima Fusion: Google joins 411-million-euro round for European nuclear fusion
- Lusíada constellation: Portugal puts three poets in orbit, bringing its satellite fleet to eight
- AI ransomware: JadePuffer is the first attack run end-to-end by an autonomous agent
- OpenAI offers the US government 5%: a $42.6 billion goodwill play
- Sony RX10 V lands July 9: the super-zoom returns after nine years
- Tesla robotaxi lands in Miami — and this time nobody is watching
- Gemini Omni Flash API: Google's AI video model opens to developers at $0.10 a second
- AI governance: UN gathers 193 countries in Geneva for first Global Dialogue
- Google loses final appeal: the €4.1 billion Android fine is now permanent
- Microsoft launches Frontier: a $2.5 billion push to put AI inside companies
- Sovereign AI in Europe: the push to stop depending on the US (and Mistral leads it)
- AI turns to science — and the top models get their own timetable
- OpenAI opens GPT-5.6 to a chosen few: Sol, Terra and Luna in preview
- The iPhone opens up: Claude arrives as an option alongside Siri
- Roaming and holidays: how to use your phone abroad without a nasty bill
- Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July — and explains why
- OpenAI is building hardware for Codex — AI leaves the screen
- The man behind the Transformer swaps Google for OpenAI
- WhatsApp will let you chat without giving out your number — usernames are coming
- AI-made content will have to identify itself in Europe
- Nvidia and Microsoft want to put AI inside your PC
- OpenAI moves toward an IPO — and the number is staggering
- Apple lets you pick the AI: ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude on iPhone
- Gemini Omni: Google wants to make video out of anything
- The new Siri and Gemini will land late in Europe — and the law's to blame
- Anthropic shuts down an operation with 25,000 fake accounts on Claude
- Apple unveils AFM 3, its new family of AI models
- OpenAI gears up to go public: the biggest IPO of the AI era
- AI changes its tune: from "spend at all costs" to showing results
- Tesla's robotaxis are already on the streets (with a human watching)
- Samsung sets Unpacked for July 22: the new foldables are coming
- AI turns to efficiency: the end of 'bigger is better'
- OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6: three models for three budgets
- Portugal's new startup wave: less hype, more proof
- Portugal wants to poach AI talent from the world — and will fast-track visas to do it
- Apple's new AI runs on Google and Nvidia servers — so what about the privacy promise?
- Portugal now has a national plan for artificial intelligence — and 25 million for the state
- Brussels calls in the scientists to watch over AI: what the new European panel changes
- The AI assistant race: ChatGPT still leads, but no longer alone
- Why your gadgets suddenly got more expensive
- Getty and OpenAI make peace: licensed images inside ChatGPT
- OpenAI is building its own chip — and calling it Jalapeño
- Washington blocks one AI lab. Beijing blacklists 56 companies
- Why your next PC will have pricier RAM
- AI stocks just took a cold shower
- Portugal bets €400m on AI — and already leads Europe in everyday use
- Microsoft built its own AI models — and wants to pay OpenAI less
- Capable AI running on a regular laptop? Google says yes
- Apple finally rolled up its AI sleeves — and Tim Cook is stepping down
- Nvidia is moving into laptops — and wants the AI inside the machine
- Anthropic passes OpenAI in value and lines up an IPO
- AI price war: Google comes in cutting
- OpenAI wants to go public — and switched off Sora on the way
- Soon you'll pick who answers on your iPhone: ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude
- Siri is finally getting smart — and Apple is paying Google to do it
- Google wants you to write a video like you'd write a text