Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles
Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human…

Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source
Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source

In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuilt from scratch over nine months, the model is nativel…

Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs
Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs

In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, alongside three partner agents built on the Model Co…

Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb
Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety operators onboard for now. Waymo is targeting London …

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject
Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

In short: Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting a terawatt of AI compute per year, handing the struggling chip giant the marquee customer it has …

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow
Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece ha…

Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves
Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves

The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of ma…

Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal
Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clea…

Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries
Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries

The Bristol-based company, parent of Narwhal AI, is building an operating system for autonomous customer conversations across voice, SMS, email, and WhatsApp. CEO Luke Sartain has previously led the Narwhal Media Group. Narwhal Labs, a Bristol-based AI…

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos
Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Ma…