Kyrok secures €3.1M to bring AI to pharma and chemical supply chains

Berlin-basedindustrial AI startup Kyrok has raised €3.1 million in a pre-seed round led bySpeedinvest. The company is building an AI operating system for supply chainmanagement tailored to Europe’s ph…

Timefold raises $13M Series A to scale scheduling optimisation infrastructure

Timefold, a developer platform forvehicle routing and shift scheduling APIs, has raised $13 million in a Series Afunding round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Kompas VC andcontinued bac…

Samsung’s new UFS 5.0 chip brings faster on-device AI and longer battery life for your smartphone

Samsung unveiled its fastest UFS 5.0 storage chip yet, reaching transfer speeds of 10.8GB per second for faster on-device AI performance.

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol
Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control T…

Amazon invites Indian users to beta-test a Hindi version of Alexa+
Amazon invites Indian users to beta-test a Hindi version of Alexa+

Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi-language support, the company’s first move to bring its generative AI assistant to a non-Western-language market. The company sent emails to select Indian customers inviting them to join a beta-testing progr…

Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem
Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem

Lovable CEO Anton Osika says European AI startups do not have a talent shortage, they have a confidence deficit. In a post on X over the weekend, Osika argued that founders were repeatedly told to move to San Francisco if they wanted to build a serious…

Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership
Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership

Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24, the independent studio behind recent hits including Backrooms and Obsession, as part of a new AI research partnership between the studio and Google DeepMind. The deal, first reported by the Wall Street Jo…

Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence
Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact hav…

Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…

Google is diving into the film world with millions of dollars, and yes, AI is involved

Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research partnership with Google DeepMind aimed at developing filmmaking tools.