Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code
Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code

Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centre…

Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland
Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland

Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wedne…

EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain
EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain

A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded M…

Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant
Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant

Bridge Neurotech came out of stealth on Tuesday with $13.5M in funding. It plans a brain-computer interface that needs no surgery and no implant. The startup wants to use ultrasound to read brain activity through the skull. It also signed a research de…

Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO
Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machin…

AI agent fleet likely from Chinese firm Tencent pulled data from rival Alibaba’s maps, researchers say

Researchers say AI agents on Tencent Cloud used urlquery.net to pull entrance data from Alibaba’s Amap, with 1,810 scans in one day.

Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail
Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail

Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content. The main probl…

ChatGPT for Teens is unsafe for under-18s, Common Sense Media says
ChatGPT for Teens is unsafe for under-18s, Common Sense Media says

ChatGPT is unsafe for anyone under 18, even in the teen mode OpenAI launched in August, according to a new risk assessment from Common Sense Media. The US nonprofit gave ChatGPT for Teens its lowest rating, “Unacceptable Risk”, in a report published on…

Cori Clinical secures $4M seed to improve clinical trial design and cut delays

Cori Clinical, an AI platform forclinical trials, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Breega,with participation from Enzo, Heartfelt, Together Ventures and Bynd.The company is targeti…

AI in finance, launching a startup, engineering talent: Croatian execs discuss

Croatian founders and finance executives recently discussed a range of issues impacting Croatian startups at a conference attended by the country’s startup and tech community.The issues discussed incl…