HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside professional …
Meta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban bra…
In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not th…
Anthropic says it has identified a fix for elevated errors across multiple Claude models, just as the company is still explaining why it suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. Anthropic’s status page says the company began investigatin…
Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Refl…
The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations b…
A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI screening software. A US federal judge has ruled that Workday must face claims its AI-powered hiring software …
The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else’s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the organisation is pressing the firms behind the AI boo…
Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in space, the idea Elon Musk has been championing, and pred…
A ransomware group says it lifted more than 630 gigabytes from the Indian manufacturer, including purported design files belonging to two of its biggest customers. The authenticity of those files is unconfirmed. India’s Tata Electronics has confirmed t…