ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform
ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interpretations and personalised vocal experiences using tracks from artists w…

Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports
Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports

Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company formerly known as Intercom into its business. The same week, Business Insider’s Katie Roof and Ben Bergman reported that Salesforce has held talks to buy …

Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…

Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, whi…

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the…

More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study finds
More Americans are warming to EVs, a new study finds

The HERE-SBD EV Index finds positive American perceptions of charging infrastructure rose from 28% to 47% in a year, and 60% now expect it to keep improving, even as US battery-electric market share fell to 5.37%. HERE is headquartered in Amsterdam and…

Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable

“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated into their workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. His Milan-based group has agreed to buy…

Electric cars are 33% cheaper to run in Europe. Petrol fuel costs rose up to 36% in one shock
Electric cars are 33% cheaper to run in Europe. Petrol fuel costs rose up to 36% in one shock

The ICCT finds battery-electric cars were 33% cheaper to run than petrol cars in the EU last year, or 28% on public charging alone, with combustion energy costs rising up to 36% after February’s oil shock while electricity held steady. Purchase-price p…

The ‘Reacher’ Season 5 Release Date Is Closer Than You Think

Reacher season 5 is already greenlit, but in the streaming era, fans have to wonder how long it’s going to take after season 4. Well, good news.

Netflix’s Best New Movie Has A 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score

Netflix’s best new movie is actually competing at a big film festival and has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. But you’ll have to wait a bit for it.