AI firms sign Macron’s Paris Call, but safety group says it lacks teeth
Nvidia board hires ex-prosecutor Joon Kim to investigate Jensen Huang
Web Summit cancels Day 2 in Lisbon as Storm Charles hits Portugal
OpenAI lets businesses claim ChatGPT profiles and launch their own agents
Adobe’s Firefly agent now plans the work and picks the AI model for you
Mercedes’ US fast-charging network hits 100 sites in three years
Nvidia says it cut off Megaspeed in 2025, but Bloomberg found later imports
Ohio State and Microsoft sign a five-year AI and cloud hospital deal
Gritt and MasTec bring bolt-on construction robots to solar sites
Graphon Labs raises $35m to give AI agents a memory that lasts
Mosaic raises $47m to build surgical machines that navigate blood vessels
Ring’s flying security camera is finally coming, six years late, for $250
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to take on hospital paperwork
Anthropic adds Claude Sheets and a call assistant, taking on its backers
Oura buys Counsel Health for $625m to put AI and doctors in its app
Reddit Reviews uses AI to summarise what users say about 10,000 products
Zacua Ventures closes $135M fund for construction and infrastructure tech
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Path Robotics raises $300m at a $2.45bn valuation for welding AI
Goldman, a lead bank on Anthropic’s IPO, sees $685B in revenue by 2030
Blue J raises $176M to put AI agents to work for tax professionals
Mercor raises $750m at a $20bn valuation to train AI on every job
Bay raises $50m to vet AI agent actions before they run
Ancep raises $8.5M for AI agents that help brokers place smaller risks
Dresden AI chipmaker Sparxity closes Series A, taking funding to $90M
Adobe becomes Disney’s AI partner to build models on its characters
CoreWeave asks Texas governor-elect to let permitted data centres finish
