The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a hard thing stays hard. The Milan startup has raised €6m in seed funding to sell AI to companies bidding for Itali…
The rapid adoption of AI agents is changing the architecture of how organizations operate. Agents can interpret information, make decisions, interact with enterprise systems, and execute tasks with a degree of autonomy that would previously have requir…
A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company designs the chip that goes on the board. That is the European Physical AI stack as it actually exists. On Monday, two thirds of it signed a…
Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for. “It m…
The engineers who built the sandbox did think about this. They allowed the agents to read the internet and blocked them from writing to it, by permitting GET requests and refusing everything else. It is the obvious control, and on almost every website …
The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 S…
For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to b…
France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival….
An AI enthusiast has conducted an experiment where OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra played through the entirety of Valve’s Portal 3D puzzler game on its own.
ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to…