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Meta Platforms plans to raise up to USD 95 billion in its largest ever equity fundraising, as the social media group spends aggressively on AI infrastructure. The company has launched public offerings worth about USD 35 billion in common and preferred stock. It also intends a separate at the market share sale programme worth up to USD 60 billion.

Apple has acknowledged that some of its new folding phones have display problems and said it will replace the affected units, days after the iPhone Duo went on sale. The company said the faults tend to appear quickly. It did not say what causes them, and the offer covers units that show the fault rather than the model as a whole.

AI linked stocks rose after Anthropic published the paperwork for its initial public offering, against a backdrop of growing investor unease over debt funded spending on computing infrastructure. Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, added nearly 3 per cent. Microsoft and Amazon gained nearly 1 per cent each.

Ivan Miranda has finished a marble scroller, a workshop sized machine that writes lines of text using nothing but small black and white marbles. He walks through the whole build in a video on his own channel, and the finished rig fills the bench it stands on. Unlike his earlier marble clocks, this one does not stop at a few digits.

Japanese companies have begun paying customers after a run of cyberattacks disrupted internet services and stirred concern about the wider economy. GMO Internet Group will compensate users who lost money when attackers reached its foreign exchange trading service, and every customer will receive 5,000 yen, about USD 32, as what chief executive Masatoshi Kumagai called an initial gesture of good faith. He announced the payments in a blog post.

A quadruped robot from ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab has solved a giant Rubik's Cube with its feet alone, without an arm or a gripper. The machine is ANYmal-D, the cube measures 0.4 m along each edge and weighs 4.6 kg, and the team reports three autonomous solves on hardware, each about thirty steps and between eight and nine minutes long.

Chinese humanoid robot makers are pushing into South Korea in earnest, moving past dance routines and showroom displays into factory trials and paid deployments, as Seoul bets heavily on physical artificial intelligence. The Korea Times reports, in a piece carried by the South China Morning Post, that UBTech Robotics, Anyverse Dynamics, AgiBot and Unitree are among those testing the market.

MOSS-Image, the 5B-parameter open-source image generation model released by MOSI and the OpenMOSS team, has drawn about 1.3 million downloads in its first four days, according to the team and QbitAI. That figure is summed across several repositories, including the Comfy-Org repository on Hugging Face, rather than counted from a single model page. The project also gathered about 1,400 stars on GitHub and quickly reached the top of Hugging Face's trending list for text-to-image

Modern companies are increasingly delegating core tasks to artificial intelligence systems while hiring inexpensive entry level workers solely to oversee the technology and correct errors. This emerging trend creates jobs that require minimal training but offer little to no career progression for young adults. Credit: UNSPLASH Traditional entry level roles once served as apprenticeships where junior employees built skills over time to become experienced professionals. Now, a

The two serious PHP flaws that forced companies and governments to scramble this week have a quieter story behind them, and it is about money. The nonprofit that maintains the language, which may underpin as much as 70 per cent of the world's websites, has one full time employee.