NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count
NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count

NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, has raised $20mn to secure the AI agents that big companies are now deploying faster than they can keep track of. The seed round, worth €17.2mn, was led by Munich’s Alstin Capital, with VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Vent…

MIT built a memory system that lets robots remember where you left your keys
MIT built a memory system that lets robots remember where you left your keys

Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last night. A robot working beside you would struggle to connect that object and location in a useful way. MIT researchers bu…

EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away
EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away

The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, a…

Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.
Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.

Midjourney, the company best known for turning text prompts into images, has announced something it has never made before: hardware. And not a phone case or a pair of glasses, but a full-body medical scanner. At an event in San Francisco on June 17, fo…

Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it
Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it

Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and…

Former Palantir healthcare head raises £10M for NHS AI agent startup

A London-based startup founded by a former Palantir healthcare executive who worked in scores of NHS hospitals during Covid has raised £9.7m in a funding round.The funding round in Frontier Health was…

China’s 618 festival is all-in on AI. Its shoppers are not.
China’s 618 festival is all-in on AI. Its shoppers are not.

China’s ‘618’ shopping festival, the mid-year sales event named for 18 June and now stretched across several weeks, has become two things at once this year: a showcase for how thoroughly AI has been threaded through online retail, and a reminder of how…

ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance
ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance

ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era non-proliferation agreements that kept the world safe from nuclea…

A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.
A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.

Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants to reach half of the region’s 1.9 million doctors by the end of 2027. Total funding is now $42 m…

China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models
China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that Beijing is “accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization” and invited all countries to join. The comments came as the G7 summit in France wrapped up with discussions abo…