Tekever hits a $6.4bn valuation and plans acquisitions with its new round
Tekever hits a $6.4bn valuation and plans acquisitions with its new round

The fund raise is precisely designed to support that growth, not only organically, developing new technology, but through acquisitions. Ricardo Mendes, founder and chief executive of Tekever, said that in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wedne…

Anthropic and Nvidia back Basecamp Research in $140M Series C

A UK life sciences startup using AI to develop new medicines faster to treat diseases has raised $140m in funding, in an investmentround featuring AI powerhouses Nvidia and new investor Anthropic. Bas…

Nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly now – but many get no time to upskill

ZDNET Exclusive: A new Workera report shows businesses and employees aren’t on the same page about AI upskilling. Here’s what organizations need to know.

Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera
Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera

As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses mark…

AI-native patent firm Fearn launches to take on the billable hour
AI-native patent firm Fearn launches to take on the billable hour

A conventional patent application can take 30 to 40 hours of attorney time and cost $18,000 to $40,000 in legal fees. Startups wait months to protect technology that can change by the day. Fearn, the modern patent prosecution firm for startups, was bui…

DiffuseDrive is filling the data gaps holding back Physical AI

Training AI to operate in the physical world requires enormous amounts of data, but many situations autonomous systems need to recognise are rare, dangerous, or hard to capture in the real world. Hung…

Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claims it’s ‘the most powerful AI chip in China’

Alibaba’s T-Head Zhenwu V900 claims three times the M890’s performance with 216GB of memory as Alibaba targets 10T-parameter Qwen

Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips
Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips

The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal …

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…

Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports
Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports

If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a “human concierge…