AI agent reliability requires a new model of observability
The rapid adoption of AI agents is changing the architecture of how organizations operate. Agents can interpret…
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NEURA and SECO will build robot compute modules in Europe
A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company…
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Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked
Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far…
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Audi built an efficient EV in Germany. It is 12cm too long for the rules meant to help
Audi has revealed the A2 e-tron, its cheapest electric car, built in Ingolstadt and priced from EUR 38,200 with up to…
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OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET
The engineers who built the sandbox did think about this. They allowed the agents to read the internet and blocked them…
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Hybrids are outselling everything in Europe. That’s bad news for 2035
American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of…
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The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports
The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a…
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UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it…
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Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports
France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it…
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Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here’s how to get control of it
Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is…
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ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports
ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally…
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Insilico says its AI-designed lung drug lowered biological age markers in a 42-patient trial
Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six…
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OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says
OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took…
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UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence…
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Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI…
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How property management education may evolve or the next generation of leaders
A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum…
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Italian hosting collective Autistici/Inventati is shutting down after a US terrorist designation
Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since…
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Cathay Pacific and Google partner on AI contrail avoidance for ultra-long-haul flights
Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025,…
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No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.
Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for…
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Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers,…
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Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams
Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and…
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Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports
Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once…
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Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round
Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human…
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Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone
Huawei has launched a new tri-folding phone two days before Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone. The…
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Build the pipeline your investors want to see
Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a…
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EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas…
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Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt
Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at €575M, well past the €500M it set out to…
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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put…
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An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions…
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Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported…
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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next…
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Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those…
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Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it
Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the…
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Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the…
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Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was…
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Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company…
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