Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every time—but if it…

Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe’s bigge…

The AI boom needs somewhere to live. Data centres, power lines, and factories all start with months of paperwork before a single wall goes up. A British-founded startup says its AI can cut that grind by 95 per cent. The company is Build, and on Tuesday…

The buzziest corner of finance AI is not the trading desk. It is the dull middle office, where staff keep thousands of portfolios in line with spreadsheets. A London-founded startup just raised $27mn to automate exactly that. The company is MDOTM. It h…

A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine a…

Canada just produced the biggest Series A in its defence history. The money is going into autonomous drones and the software to run a war in the Arctic. Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa defence-technology company, has raised CA$139mn ($100mn) in a Series A…

A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Eur…

Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describ…

OpenAI’s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk to an AI all day. On Monday, the OpenAI Developers account posted a short video on X. It showed a small square device with…

The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from …