Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost

Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those o [...]

eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

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 yea [...]

OpenAI's Codex Desktop can run your computer now - and has its own browser

From coding tool to productivity powerhouse, Codex Desktop adds computer control, automation memory, and plugin support. But can it replace traditional software? [...]

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automat [...]

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the g [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]

From lab to market: Rose Rock Bridge fast-tracks energy innovation in Tulsa

Presented by Tulsa Innovation LabsAs the global energy system evolves, companies are racing to adopt technologies that can deliver real-world solutions, especially in hard-to-abate industries. Oklahom [...]

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction

File this one under "things that might have a shot after the midterms." On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced the Artificial Intelli [...]

Physical AI: The Next Great Manufacturing Shift

Physical AI, visual tools and wireless automation are converging to transform factory performance and workforce appeal. [...]