Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at…
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Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms…
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China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%
Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of…
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GM is giving away free home chargers, and paying drivers to charge off-peak
General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric will give new EV buyers a home charger worth up to $1,999 and $15 a month…
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Bentley’s first electric car arrives, and its next one is not due until after 2030
Bentley revealed the Torcal, its first electric car, at a London debut where its chief executive said no further…
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Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says
Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer…
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Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT
AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data…
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Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf
“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take…
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Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week
Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project…
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AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped
Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of…
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Oracle cites force majeure over New Mexico data centre, Bloomberg reports
Oracle has sent a force majeure notice over Project Jupiter, a huge AI data centre being built in New Mexico, Bloomberg…
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“Supply chains are at risk”: O-ID raises $1.2m for modular humanoid robots
“When enough factory roles go unfilled at once, entire supply chains are at risk. O-ID’s robots are built to work…
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Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m
Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on…
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DriveWealth breach exposes data of Revolut customers who traded US stocks
A breach at DriveWealth, the US broker behind Revolut’s US stock trading, exposed the personal data of some Revolut…
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Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could wipe out humanity
Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling…
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Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage
A fire broke out late on Wednesday at a Starlink ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry internet traffic to…
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Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce by 2030, Reuters reports
Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two…
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DeepSeek’s annualised revenue run rate reaches $1bn, report says
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is now bringing in revenue at an annualised rate of $1bn, The Information reports, more than…
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OpenAI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, PM says
The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was…
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Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids
Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses…
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Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did
Companies cannot fully govern AI systems, but they can build a fixed fence around them, Google DeepMind’s Kareem Ayoub…
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OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI is stuck on deployment, not models
Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI’s head of forward deployed…
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Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on…
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US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council
The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today…
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Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers
Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He…
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Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders
Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI…
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Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says
“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of…
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Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make…
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Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and…
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Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down
Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in…
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Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic says Claude has found a previously undescribed enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that…
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UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk
The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI.…
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DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by…
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UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and…
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Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport
Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey…
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Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030
Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which…
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