Postquant Labs launches a virtual machine for different quantum computers
Quantum computers don’t all work the same way, and that creates a problem for developers. Code written for one machine may need to be rewritten before it can run on another. Postq…
Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull
The raise comes as venture dollars pile up on the West Coast.
Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo
Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three years, the company announced. The metal will be used in several …
Vectorial raises $3M to help companies launch successful products
AI is making building and launching products exponentially faster, but current user research is still painfully slow, expensive and biased. Even with AI-moderated interviews, gett…
Oura adds new fitness metrics to show how workouts impact your body
While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, rivals like RingConn and Ultrahuman are emerging to dethrone it, putting pressure on the company to keep innovati…
Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content
Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue.
Qualcomm reportedly plans global job cuts after annual staff reviews
Qualcomm plans to cut jobs around the world after its yearly staff reviews, with affected employees due to be told from November. Chief executive Cristiano Amon set out the plan t…
Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud
Microsoft is adding new controls to its sovereign cloud for governments and regulated companies, the CEO Satya Nadella announced today. The changes give customers more say over wh…
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups withou…
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember you…
AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups b…
Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down
Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company’s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms that run their systems there. The same morning, customers of fi…
Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The …
Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks over second $45bn deal
Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic about $45bn more in AI computing capacity, two months after the two companies agreed to a deal of the same size. Bloomberg reported the tal…
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople
Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. B…
OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO
OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT mak…
Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards
Revolut customers across Europe were unable to open the fintech’s app or pay with their cards on Tuesday morning, after a service disruption hit several of its features. Outage tr…
Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail
Micron workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, are set to go on strike on Thursday, 22 October, after months of failed negotiations over how the US chipmaker shares its profits with employees…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic ahead of its IPO
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, owns about 1% of Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. If the AI company goes public at the valuations now being discussed, the stake could be wort…
Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit
At the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, the German government entered into an agreement with Nvidia on Monday, when Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the two-day event by addres…
Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet
Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
Exclusive: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to cut the heat inside quantum computers
Think of a quantum computer as a very delicate machine that needs to operate in extreme cold. The processor is the part that does the actual computing, but it needs a lot of suppo…
Walmart’s Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India
Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch.
Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power ba…