European energy coalition calls for €1B natural hydrogen exploration programme

A coalition of more than 30 European energy organisations, including investment firms World Fund, Wind Capital, and Natural Hydrogen Ventures, has published an open letter to European Commission Presi…

Comets carried life’s building blocks, but getting them to Earth was another story

A Cambridge-led study suggests comets rarely delivered useful quantities of life’s molecular ingredients to early Earth because impacts destroyed them and surviving material wouldn’t have stayed concentrated at the surface for long.

The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup, he didn’t think its data was worth much. But he’s…

Amazon’s new Echo line is here: the 6 biggest updates
Amazon’s new Echo line is here: the 6 biggest updates

Amazon has just taken the wraps off a bunch of new devices as part of a string of fall announcements. Today’s news focuses largely on new Echo speakers, with a few new smart home gadgets sprinkled in. Here’s a roundup of all of the updates Amazon revealed on Wednesday. Echo Show 16 adds a larger […]

Dayforce puts its HR and payroll data inside Anthropic’s Claude
Dayforce puts its HR and payroll data inside Anthropic’s Claude

Dayforce is bringing its HR, payroll and scheduling data into Anthropic’s Claude. A new Dayforce connector lets customers ask questions about their workforce in plain language inside Claude and take supported actions, the HR software company said on Tu…

Amazon Adds an Alexa Photo Frame and a Bedside Clock to Its Echo Family

The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

Upwind’s $400M Series C backs a runtime-first security strategy as revenue quadruples
Upwind’s $400M Series C backs a runtime-first security strategy as revenue quadruples

The moment a cloud workload changes, the security picture around it can change too. A new application release, an altered configuration or an interaction between services may affect whether an exposure can be exploited. For security teams relying on pe…

AI Can Improve Itself. But Who Decides What ‘Better’ Means?

Every improvement loop needs a way to distinguish progress from activity.

Tesla’s Cybercab Robotaxi Is Probably Not “Unsupervised.” Here’s Why

Every self-driving project watches remotely when they first take out the employee. Tesla has yet to say they have done so. Here’s the many reasons to know it’s still supervised

‘We analyzed 119 million ear data points’ — how Samsung built Galaxy Buds On, its first open-type earbuds
‘We analyzed 119 million ear data points’ — how Samsung built Galaxy Buds On, its first open-type earbuds

Samsung Galaxy Buds On are the tech giant’s first clip-on open earbuds, promising noise-cancellation technology that actually addresses noise leakage.