Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople

Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. Burazin, a Croatian citizen, started Daytona with two co-founders, one of …

Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was mad…

Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse
Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse

Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Floc…

Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag
Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register fi…

EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns
EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns

Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe…

Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate
Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate

Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at General Atlantic, spoke on stage at Wave by Vento in Turi…

Rwanda reportedly wins Africa’s first F1 Grand Prix since 1993
Rwanda reportedly wins Africa’s first F1 Grand Prix since 1993

Rwanda looks set to host Formula 1’s first African Grand Prix in more than 30 years. Motorsport site RacingNews365 first reported the deal, citing paddock sources, as GrandPrix.com relayed. AFP later reported the news, citing its own sources, Semafor s…

Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati
Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati

Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley’s A…

Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers
Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers

Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank’s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke with Bloomberg anchor Tom Mackenzie at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, i…

Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next
Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next

Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event’s last day. “Europe missed the big dig…