Clueso raises $10M for AI agents that make corporate video
Clueso has raised a $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital for AI agents that script, record and maintain corporate video, bringing total funding to $12M. The market it is entering …
Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry
Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the fa…
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers
Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conferenc…
IMF warns $1.4tn in circular AI deals could deepen a market correction
A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply t…
Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out…
Aramco Digital teams up with OrbitronAI to build AI for heavy industry
Aramco Digital, the tech arm of Saudi oil giant Aramco, has teamed up with start-up OrbitronAI to build and sell AI tools for heavy industry, the two firms said. The tools are aim…
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn, WSJ reports
Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the …
AI labs sought control over what outside evaluators publish, Reuters says
Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for a big say over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public, Reuters reported today, citing two people who know about the talks. …
ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other AI platform, Semrush finds
ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s …
Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450
Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou o…
Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise for companies in Europ
Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, a version of its browser for companies and public bodies that must meet strict security and compliance requirements. The product pairs the…
Visa gets China’s approval to prepare a domestic card clearing business
Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People’s Bank of China approved its “Application to Prep…
How AI coding tools could amplify software supply-chain attacks
AI coding tools are changing how developers obtain and use software. But the growing volume of automated package installations is creating new challenges for enterprise security t…
ISACA survey finds 47% of women in tech have faced gender discrimination
Almost half of women working in tech, 47%, say they have been treated unfairly at work because of their gender, according to a new survey by ISACA. Two years ago, the figure was 4…
Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds
Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a sur…
UiPath’s Michael Atalla on AI slop, junior jobs and a Shaolin monk’s advice
UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead,…
Naboo rebrands and says its AI cuts corporate event costs by 12%
Naboo, a Paris start-up that books and manages events for large companies, has rebranded, it said on Tuesday. It now pitches itself to procurement and finance teams as well as to …
Atlassian does not use Chinese AI models in production, its CEO says
Atlassian does not run any Chinese AI models in its products, chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an interview with 20VC, the podcast hosted by investor Harry Stebbings. T…
AI reputation management: what gets said about you inside ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google Gemini
When someone asks ChatGPT about you, they don’t get a page of links to scroll through. They get a one-paragraph summary instead. That answer is fast becoming your first impression…
Microsoft reportedly is reorganising the leadership of its Azure cloud unit
Microsoft is reshaping the leadership of Azure, its cloud computing business, and merging some of its units, The Information reported on Monday. Scott Guthrie, who runs Microsoft’…
Ursula Von der Leyen wants AI to cut how often EU businesses report the same data
Ursula von der Leyen wants companies in the EU to provide officials with the same details just once, with AI helping public bodies use them. The European Commission president made…
NTT Data reportedly nears deal to build Anthropic’s first Japan data centre
TT Data Group is close to agreeing to a deal with Anthropic for a new data centre in Osaka, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. It would be the first site in…
Bumble reportedly in talks to go private at a valuation of about $1bn
Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Bumble and take the dating app private, in a deal that would value it at about $1 billion. Reuters reported the talks, citing one sourc…
Character.AI files for bankruptcy as Disney bids $20M for some assets
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and lined up Disney as the first bidder for some of its assets, the company said on Monday. The AI chatbot platform, own…