Comcast is turning tens of millions of routers into motion detectors
Comcast is turning tens of millions of its home routers into motion detectors. The feature, called WiFi Motion, uses a home’s own WiFi signal to sense movement, without any camera…
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.
Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted
Navi, the Indian fintech founded by the Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100mn from the investor Prosus. It is the first outside institutional funding for the eight-…
A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic
An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle…
Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce
Muon Space has raised $250m in a round backed by Google and Salesforce, according to their announcement. It is the largest cheque yet written to a company whose best-known product…
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to 31 European countries
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries, in its largest expansion of the ad business so far. The rollout starts next week, the company said in a blog post. …
A “private and secure” face-search tool left 9 million photos exposed
A people-search tool that promises “private and secure” searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online, including photos of people’s faces. A security researcher fou…
Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed
Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a faster kind of fibre for AI data centres. The Orlando-based co…
Big Tech is on a charm offensive to get its data centres built
Big Tech is pouring money into local PR campaigns to win support for the data centres it needs. Opposition to the buildings is spreading across the United States. They are holding…
The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” to…
YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix
YouTube is offering some of its largest creators multi-million-dollar packages to keep their work off Netflix, according to reporting first published by Bloomberg. Several agreeme…
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client
Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single data centre order the Swedish construction group has announce…
Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether they carry news or not
Australia’s parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing a five-year argument that began when Meta worked out it could avoid paying for news by simply not …
Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table
Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the British state. Bloomberg reported the raise, describing the…
A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed
Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by …
China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you
China’s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give a lost tourist directions to the nearest metro station. What they cannot do is stop anybody, and that limi…
Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares
Revolut has asked its shareholders to let Nik Storonsky borrow up to $250mn against his stake in the company, five times what the current rules permit. The request went to investo…
Meta’s first witness told a jury the problem was Mark Zuckerberg’s culture
Arturo Béjar took the stand in Oakland on Wednesday and told a federal jury that the reason Meta could never fix its own safety problems was the culture Mark Zuckerberg had built.…
Trump hosts crypto executives as the SEC proposes its friendliest rules yet
The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American regulator has ever put on paper. On Wednesday, the industry that wou…
Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’
Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent another part o…
Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-…
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real a…
Avec’s latest AI feature reads your email so you don’t miss the due date
Avec has added a feature that scans an email for a deadline when you swipe left, then resurfaces the message on the relevant day. The $8.4mn startup has published no detail on whe…