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Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who built […]
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Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few dollars. That footage, mundane, specific, reproducible at scale, is exactly what AI and robotics […]
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The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and Copilot almost entirely with OpenAI’s models. On Thursday, the company’s in-house team announced MAI-Image-2, a […]
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Picture a VP of finance at a large retailer. She asks the company’s new AI analytics agent a simple question: “What was our revenue last quarter?” The answer comes back in seconds. Confident. Clean. Wrong. That exact scenario happens more frequently than many organizations would care to admit. AtScale, which enables organizations to deploy governed […]
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There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out, is everything. And the companies running the most popular free email services in the world are not keeping that […]
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The TACEO Network, already live inside World ID’s proof of human’ verification for more than 18 million users, lets organisations share digital infrastructure without sharing sensitive data. When Sam Altman’s World needs to verify that a new user’s iris hasn’t already been registered, it faces a peculiar problem. The computation has to happen on encrypted […]
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The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single announcement feel routine. But this partnership with Rivian is structurally different from the rest […]
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The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel. Defenders intercepted […]
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The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumulated a graveyard of credible-sounding startups. The engineering problem is genuinely hard: harvesting tomatoes or cucumbers requires handling...
Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has to navigate the legacy software, pull the right records, select the right codes, and enter them correctly. In […]
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