Apple and LG built a doorbell, lock and thermostat together, Bloomberg says
Apple is working with LG Electronics on a video doorbell, a thermostat, a smart deadbolt lock and three security…
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Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market
Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12…
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Nous Research raises $90M to take its Hermes AI agent to businesses
Nous Research has raised $90M to build a business version of Hermes, its open-source AI agent. Nvidia, Microsoft’s M12,…
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Musk’s Grok Bot will use Anthropic’s Claude, Midjourney and Suno models
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including…
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Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers
Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads…
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Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media
Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The free website checks whether an image, video or audio file…
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Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI…
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Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 cloud for own servers and open source
The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. Its office software will…
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CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX
CoreWeave will open its first data centres in India, using 240 megawatts of capacity at an AdaniConneX campus in Navi…
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Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI model of how cells respond to drugs
Paris start-up Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round to build an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to…
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Google launches Playground to turn prompts into games, with Unity on board
Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that turns text prompts into playable games. It is teaming up…
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Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code
Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working…
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Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland
Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and…
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EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain
A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain.…
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Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts
Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines,…
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Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant
Bridge Neurotech came out of stealth on Tuesday with $13.5M in funding. It plans a brain-computer interface that needs…
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Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to launch Surface Laptop Ultra on Wednesday
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang will present the Surface Laptop Ultra in San…
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Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO
Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday.…
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Stuut raises $52.5M Series B to run order-to-cash with AI
Businesses worldwide have $16 trillion locked up in unpaid receivables. Stuut, the AI platform that runs order-to-cash…
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Germany backs EU approval of Tesla’s driver-assistance software
Germany will push for fast EU-wide approval of Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance system, transport minister Steffen…
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Spotify expands audiobooks to more than 180 markets by the end of 2026
Spotify will offer audiobooks in more than 180 markets by the end of 2026, up from 22 today, the company said at the…
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Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj uses AI avatar to address voters from jail
Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising…
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ChatGPT for Teens is unsafe for under-18s, Common Sense Media says
ChatGPT is unsafe for anyone under 18, even in the teen mode OpenAI launched in August, according to a new risk…
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Siena raises $17M Series A to build AI agents for consumer brands
Siena, a New York-based startup that develops AI agents for consumer brands, has raised $17 million in its Series A…
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Japan’s Rapidus teams up with 17 firms to win customers for 2nm chips
Rapidus, Japan’s state-backed chipmaker, has signed up 17 chip design firms to help it win customers before it starts…
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SpaceX reportedly in talks to borrow $40B to buy Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today,…
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Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg
Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu…
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EU considers bigger levy on large companies to tax Big Tech
The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies,…
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Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate…
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Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video…
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AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself
AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry…
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Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices
Brett Adcock’s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child’s…
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Santé raises $15 million to bring AI to the neighborhood liquor store
Every bottle sitting unsold on a liquor store shelf ties up cash. Deciding when to discount it, which customers might…
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Lucid production falls 38% as the EV maker clears inventory
Lucid built 2,954 vehicles in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly output since early 2025 and a 38% fall from the…
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Google accused of overcharging 20 million UK consumers over Play Store fees
Google is defending a £1.2B claim at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British…
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Revolut’s commercial real estate lending chief exits
Duncan Batty, hired from M&G Investments in January 2025 to build Revolut’s commercial real estate lending business,…
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