Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up
Mark Zuckerberg says billions will have a personal AI agent within five years
Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions
Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list
BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom
Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’
China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card
AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route
Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner
US senators warn Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips to escape the shortage
Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming
Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model
Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI
NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data
Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB
Everyone hated Friend’s AI necklace, so it came back at double the price
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AI agents are about to run the enterprise. Onyx raised $113M to keep a human in the loop.
Highland Europe closes a €1.1bn fund to keep backing European scale-ups
The AI race built faster chips. Now the chips are too fast for their own wires.
Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom
This Cambridge startup is building a ‘foundation model’ for the chest to speed drug trials
Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency
AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.
Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix
