Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform
Exclusive: Choice is betting $7.1M that restaurants can run with one single AI platform

Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habits and the way we make choices have changed, including where we eat, resta…

Vessla exits stealth with $3.3M to bring AI agents to property management

Stockholm-based AI startup Vesslahas emerged from stealth with a $3.3 million pre-seed funding round led bySeedcamp. Other participants included Inception Fund, Tiny VC, operators fromLovable and Open…

Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO
Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO

Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays, Bloomberg reported, citing…

World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports
World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports

The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank’s chief knowledge officer, said AI could speed up growth in emerging economies, but only if it fits l…

Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages are on the line

Anthropic’s proposal requires evaluators to report any imminent risk to the Department of Commerce within 72 hours, after which the Department must present the evidence to a federal judge and await an order.

Researchers train AI to detect concealed handguns using Wi-Fi signals

Researchers have developed WiFireNet, an AI system that detects concealed handguns from Wi-Fi channel-state information, achieving 72.5% average precision in controlled indoor tests without cameras or metal detectors.

Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs
Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs

Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC reported. Meta c…

Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports

Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue,…

Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join
Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join

More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. Its newest partners include Axios, CNN, the Financ…

Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports

Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, according to the report. “I can reach CEOs on this better than yo…