Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
US voters rejected AI data centres in 40 of 41 ballot measures
US voters sided against AI data centres in all but one of 41 local ballot measures on Tuesday. Democrats who campaigned against the build-out also won the governor’s races in Texa…
Amazon ditches GrubHub, taps Uber Eats for Prime
Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States.
Roberta Metsola warns MEPs that AI cannot replace debate in EU lawmaking
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has warned MEPs against relying on AI to write laws, telling them that responsibility for every decision stays with elected members. …
Online stores are using AI to run faster in the wrong direction
Generative AI is a game changer for e-commerce. Product photos, videos, social posts and entire ad campaigns used to take time, budget and a team. Now they can be made in minutes.…
Memrise founders raise $3.3M for Mindmax, an AI tutor for exams
Mindmax, a London start-up founded by the team behind the language app Memrise, has raised $3.3m (£2.5m) in pre-seed funding to build an AI tutor. The company announced the round …
Microsoft reportedly rejects option to expand Nscale’s Texas AI deal
Microsoft has turned down an option to more than double the computing power it rents from Nscale at a data centre in Barstow, Texas, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.The e…
OpenAI will be ready for an IPO in 2027, says Greg Brockman
OpenAI will be ready to go public in 2027, president Greg Brockman said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference in Napa, California, he also said that busi…
EU launches €525M platform to back European chip design start-ups
The European Commission on Wednesday launched the European Chip Design Platform, which will invest €525M to help start-ups and small companies design their own chips. Henna Virkku…
Barcelona’s Kabilio raises €10M to bring AI agents to accounting firms
Barcelona startup Kabilio, which wants AI to take the receipt-chasing out of accounting, has raised €10M in a round led by Picus Capital and Visionaries. CDTI, Spain’s public agen…
Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Stop teaching leadership. Start letting people practise it
Organizations are preparing a generation raised on digital technology and interactive games to lead in a world of complexity. Yet many still train managers through presentations a…
AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress. Here’s how they fared.
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only 4 people booked a ride using an AI agent.
Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers
The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 p…
OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Apple cuts engineers’ daily AI budgets as it reins in spending
Apple cut the daily AI spending cap for some engineers from $300 to $200 last month and plans further cuts, Bloomberg reports. It comes as CEO John Ternus pushes for a leaner Appl…
Hackers stole DreamHost customer files and inboxes during months-long attack
The web host said hackers exploited a vulnerability to access customer emails and files during a "deliberate attack."
Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as incre…
DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6
OpenAI is adding animated GIFs to ChatGPT with a new image model, Images 2.6. Users can make a GIF from text or a photo and edit its frames. Developers get two new API models, and…