Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct kno…

Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop
Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop

Russia turned Claude into a tool for weapons development, espionage, and propaganda, Anthropic’s new threat report claims.

Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script
Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script

Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to…

Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force
Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force

Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoe…

Custodea secures €350K to give European SMEs greater control over their data

Custodea, a European AI data platformdesigned to help SMEs centralise and manage their business data, has raised€350,000 in seed funding from investors in Custodea’s network.Custodea is addressing the…

Europe at "acute risk of marginalisation" unless billions in AI funding committed, warns new report

Europe should commit to €100 billion in data centre spend, tripling its share of global computing power, and bring frontier AI expertise and technology into EU institutions, according to a new report …

Tandem Health scores $100M Series B, led by EU’s €5bn tech startup fund

Swedish healthtech startup Tandem Health hasraised $100m in a Series B funding round, which was led by the EU-backed €5bn Scaleup EuropeFund, a new investor. The round, which is large for a Series B, …

A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI
A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI

Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030. Fifteen percent, which means building three times wha…

Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds
Z.ai raises $5bn in Hong Kong including $3bn of zero-interest bonds

Z.ai, the Chinese model developer listed in Hong Kong as Zhipu, has raised about $5bn in a single move. Roughly $2bn came from placing 21.97 million new shares at HK$714, about 10 percent below the previous close. The other $3bn came from RMB 20.14bn o…

Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act
Obama warns AI in private hands could be dangerous and urges Democrats to act

Barack Obama told a closed Democratic fundraiser last Thursday that artificial intelligence is “moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think it can be dangerous”.  The New York Times obtained a partial transcript from hi…