A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens they burned, a status game that earned its own name: tokenmaxxing. That era is ending. The sa…
Microsoft is considering putting a Chinese AI model inside its enterprise Copilot, and the reason is money. The company told Axios it is exploring a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper option to po…
Nvidia showcases agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks – like PC building – in the real world.
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A London-based AI startup founded by three former Palantir employees, which is looking to modernise ERP systems, has raised $60m in new funding. The Series A investment in Conduct was co-led by new in…
Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also…
On Wednesday, Arthur Mensch took his seat at a G7 working lunch in Evian alongside Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei. Days earlier, the US government had ordered Amodei’s company to cut foreign nationals off from its most capable models, and…
NeuralTrust, a platform for securing AIagents, has raised a $20 million seed financing round, led by Alstin Capital,with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EAVentu…
Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive…
A man with ALS has been using a brain implant to speak independently for more than 3,800 hours over the past two years, producing nearly 2 million words with an average speed of 56 words per minute. The study, published Monday in Nature Medicine by res…
Qualcomm announced two products on Tuesday aimed at positioning the company as the silicon supplier for whatever computing device eventually displaces the smartphone. The first is Snapdragon Reality Elite, a mixed reality chip platform with substantial…