Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Worksp…
Lees meerSummary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA a…
Lees meerSummary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the restricted Project Glasswing programme. The collaboration began …
Lees meerSummary: Google rebranded and consolidated its AI platform at Cloud Next 2026, renaming Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and absorbing Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise product. The announcements include Workspace Studio (…
Lees meerSpaceX announced the deal on X, pre-empting a New York Times report that framed it as a completed acquisition. The structure gives SpaceX optionality: exercise the call by year end or walk away having paid $10B for shared compute access and joint mo…
Lees meerAttorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in t…
Lees meerSummary: Japanet Holdings, the Japanese TV shopping company based in Nagasaki, has quadrupled its venture capital fund to $200 million after early investments through Pegasus Tech Ventures in Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX, and OpenAI generated extraordinar…
Lees meerThe move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters, is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employ…
Lees meerIn short: Bond, a new “post-feed” social network founded by former Index Ventures principal Dino Becirovic and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on 21 April with no infinite scroll and no algorithmic feed, instead using AI tr…
Lees meerIn short: Meta faces a convergence of lawsuits across the US, Australia, and the UK alleging the company knowingly profited from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, with its own internal documents projecting that 10% of 2024 revenue, roughly $16 bil…
Lees meerThe FT reports that OpenAI’s $500M initial equity stake, with an option for $1B more, will go into a Delaware LLC designed to accelerate AI adoption across PE portfolio companies. OpenAI is guaranteeing backers a 17.5% annual return. A close is expe…
Lees meerThe Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they o…
Lees meerA year after flying and recovering the continent’s first private re-entry capsule, the German-French startup is moving from demonstration to operations. Three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, a new defence entity, and a next-generation 1-tonne capsule are all fu…
Lees meerA small group communicating via a private Discord channel accessed Claude Mythos Preview by guessing the model’s URL on the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has found no evidence of impact to its…
Lees meerThe US president told CNBC on Tuesday that Anthropic is ‘shaping up’ following a White House meeting last Friday at which the company’s CEO Dario Amodei discussed its Mythos AI model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Besse…
Lees meerThe San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rathe…
Lees meerAgentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, signals that the era of unlimited AI assistance at …
Lees meerMedical alert systems have become an essential safety tool for older adults who want to maintain their independence while ensuring help is available at the press of a button. These devices connect users to trained emergency operators 24/7, providing…
Lees meerThe Dublin and London-based fintech, founded by ex-Stripe and ex-Tide engineers, has processed over 100,000 transactions and 40,000 invoices across 80+ early customers. Its €7.5M seed round, led by 13books, brings total funding to €10M and opens the…
Lees meerThe now-public S-1 prospectus shows Musk controls roughly 79% of SpaceX’s votes despite owning approximately 42% of its equity, a gap created by a dual-class share structure. The company is targeting a June listing at a $1.75 trillion valuation, a r…
Lees meerThe Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund among its latest investors, a sign that its clean f…
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