Uber is partnering with drone-delivery firm Zipline and targets a million drone deliveries a day
Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, …
WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan
WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-building tools.
Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings
A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be w…
Nvidia puts $1.5bn into SoftBank’s SB Energy to power OpenAI’s Ohio data centre
Nvidia has agreed to invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, the US power and infrastructure developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, in a deal that hands the chipmaker up to 8 gigawatt…
Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank
Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the larg…
Dutch contractor rules just changed, and the bill is backdated
Somewhere in Amsterdam there is a developer who has invoiced the same foreign company every month for three years. Same rate, same hours, same Slack channel, same standup at 09:30…
Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network
Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.
Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts
The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.
Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery
Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral …
Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe
The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of th…
A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block
A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklis…
Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to do something entirely mundane, book him into a gym class, and it answered by carrying out the country’s first known autonomous cyberatt…
A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens
In Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China’s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil th…
Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market
Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe’s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan’s…
AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it
The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine…
SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem
SafePal, the Binance-backed maker of hardware and software crypto wallets, has disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 39,798 customers, all of whom placed orders between 2 Marc…
Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
The Chinese giant is offloading a profitable gaming studio to private equity so it can pour every spare yuan into Qwen and its data centres, though the buyers and sellers cannot a…
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell fr…
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the…
Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028
According to a Reuters exclusive, the AI lab’s initial public offering hinges on an internal forecast that it will book between $190bn and $200bn of revenue in 2028, a previously …
Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthro…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.