Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data
Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data

The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch and ABB plants. Now it wants the US. Berlin startup that films what happens on a factory floor and turns it into live pro…

Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic
Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic

Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the second pair to head for the Claude maker inside a week….

Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone
Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone

We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, harder to cross and harder even to name. Nor can we deny that technology has had its hand in this rupture, since it has not…

Tombot raises $7m to bring its robotic dog Jennie to market
Tombot raises $7m to bring its robotic dog Jennie to market

Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 financing round to move its flagship product from development into manufacturing. The company said on June 24 that the round d…

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…

AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds
AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds

Wealthy investors are using artificial intelligence to research and generate ideas, and then asking a human being whether to act on them. That is the headline finding of new HSBC research published on Wednesday, which surveyed nearly 10,000 affluent an…

Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment
Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment

The services chief, named Cannes Lions’ Entertainment Person of the Year, set out the logic behind Apple TV: no licensed reruns, fewer titles, and a belief that the story is the only thing that matters. Eddy Cue would like you to know that Apple is not…

Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work
Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work

An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career s…

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay
GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay

Ryan Cohen has asked GameStop’s board to remove the performance-based stock award it proposed for him in January scrapping a package that analysts had valued at as much as $35bn if every milestone were hit. Cohen, who is both chairman and chief executi…

SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’
SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’

At SoftBank Group’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record high…