French fintech Pennylane raises €175M
Paris-based fintech Pennylane has just pulled off one of Europe’s most noteworthy funding rounds of the year, announcing €175 million in new capital to accelerate its push into artificial intellig...
Can AI replace the humanity of Classical Music?
In October 2021, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn interpreted the first movement of Beethoven’s 10th unfinished symphony, which was completed with the use of artificial intelligence. A team of computer ...
US DOJ Recasts Crypto as Fraud Infrastructure in New Review
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is signaling a major shift in its approach to crypto enforcement.
Authorities frame digital assets not as standalone “crypto scams” but as a central tool in m...
AWS and Prime Video hit as Amazon prepares new wave of layoffs
According to Reuters, Amazon plans an additional round of corporate job cuts next week, following an October reduction, as part of its strategy to eliminate 30,000 corporate positions. These layoffs, ...
Amazon to Cut 14,000 Corporate Jobs in Second Round of Layoffs
Amazon reportedly plans to start laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as soon as Tuesday (Jan. 27).
These cuts will be part of the second round of a broader plan to eliminate 30,000 co...
Microsoft Brings Agentic AI to Retail Robotics
Microsoft outlined this week how agentic artificial intelligence (AI) robots and vision-enabled agents are already changing in-store operations, customer service and workforce workflows. The shift mar...
