Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools
Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketpl…
Nscale sued in Norway over a data centre engineer’s dismissal
An engineer at Nscale’s Stavanger data centre has sued the AI cloud firm and subcontractor CloudBrothers, Bloomberg reported. He claims Nscale directed his work like an employer a…
Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients’ personal and health data was compromised during breach
Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.
Bose buys Skullcandy, the cheaper headphone brand already using its sound
Bose bought Skullcandy on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The seller was a fund managed by Mill Road Capital Management, a private investment firm in Connecticut. Skul…
Unitree is building AI that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves
Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the comp…
OpenClaw creator puts last month’s token bill at $10M, The Register reports
Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s …
Recursive releases Flint, a laptop coding model largely built by its own AI
Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recur…
Cloudflare sees millions of attempts to exploit critical PHP flaws
Cloudflare has recorded millions of attempts to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities since details became public on Wednesday, according to CEO Matthew Prince. The flaws affec…
Anthropic and Hg reportedly plan AI consultancy for European firms
Anthropic is planning to back a new European AI consultancy with Hg, the London-based private equity firm, the Financial Times reported. The independent company will place AI engi…
OpenAI’s AI agents analyse a mouse brain gene atlas in 32 minutes
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research have used close to 2,000 AI agents to analyse a large mouse brain dataset in 32 minutes. The team estimates that researchers working by hand…
Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots to grip by feel
Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime…
Intel CTO tells Dwarkesh Patel the world lacks tools to 10x chip output
Intel could not make 10 times more leading-edge wafers even if it wanted to, says its chief technology officer, Pushkar Ranade. The world lacks the chipmaking tools. Doubling outp…
UK to set up AI unit to spot and fight wildfires faster
The UK government will set up a Wildfires AI Unit to help spot and fight fires faster, after the country’s hottest summer on record. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is setting out the…
Formic raises $50M to bring general-purpose robots to US factories
Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose m…
Rivian buys Third Dimension AI to turn real roads into 3D test worlds
Rivian has bought Third Dimension AI, a startup that turns real-world camera footage into 3D scenes. The carmaker will use them to train and test its driver assistance and self-dr…
Madrid is getting its first quantum computer from Telefónica and IQM
Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers will install an IQM Spark at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid before the end of 2026. It will be the first quantum computer in the Commun…
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15bn from Tencent and CATL ahead of IPO
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has raised about 100bn yuan ($15bn), one of the largest private funding rounds ever in China. Bloomberg reported the deal on Thursday, citing people famili…
Maxinsights raises $30M to turn everyday chores into robot training data
Maxinsights pays people to wear cameras while they cook, clean and work. The Santa Clara startup has now raised $30M in seed funding to turn that footage into training data for ro…
Meta had to ask Stripe to raise limits as Muse shoppers poured in
Purchase volumes on Muse came in “above what any of us expected”, Mark Zuckerberg said. Meta had to ask Stripe to raise its credit limits. He spoke on Meta’s third-quarter earning…
US lawmakers press Zuckerberg over Meta’s role in Brazil’s runoff
Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 House Democrats have told Mark Zuckerberg it is “unacceptable” for a platform to favour one candidate. Their letter, sent on Thursday, asks Meta to e…
Zuckerberg planned to sell his home, so Meta built him a wealth tax deal
Meta says Mark Zuckerberg “would effectively be paying to serve” as its chief executive if California taxes its billionaires. So it is creating new shares he can sell to cover the…
Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay
Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and president John Collison to its board, the company disclosed on Wednesday in its annual proxy statement. The same filing asks sharehol…
OpenAI signs AI safety research deal with Poland’s NASK institute
OpenAI has partnered with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute to research AI safety and security, as concerns grow over AI agents behaving in ways their developers did not i…
Nvidia has put $170bn on the line for neoclouds, The Information reports
Jensen Huang told CNBC on Thursday that demand for neoclouds is “off the charts”, Business Insider reported. His company has put more than $170bn on the line for them and other la…