Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the compan…

Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver
Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver

Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. From Wednesday, riders there can book a self-driving car through the Uber app, the company said. The service is run with the Chinese firm Pony.ai an…

A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide
A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said…

Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres
Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in…

Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI
Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI

Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-i…

India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders
India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders

Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of what ElevenLabs charges. The company says it scores above some OpenAI models on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. A Bang…

63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five
63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five

Europe’s data centre capacity will reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, a fifth more than last year, and most of the new supply is no longer landing where the industry has always built. Of the roughly 700 megawatts added in the second quarter, only 3…

Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England
Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England

Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six times its current footprint. Its only British site, in Darlington, is under an AAIB accident investigation with its CAA permission expiring on 31 Decembe…

Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it
Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it

Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone v…

ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy
ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy

Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car’s losses to between 5.1% and 7%. Some of the electricity you buy to charge an …