How AI and education are shaping the future of aesthetics

Instead of just taking inspiration from social media posts, data can be used to personalize expectations. [...]

Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. Th [...]

NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, accordin [...]

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion on Starship and is racing to make rocketry resemble an airline schedule

SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its Starship megarocket and is pushing for a launch cadence that would make space access resemble an airline schedule rather than a government program [...]

Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder

Manus was, briefly, one of the most valuable exits in Chinese AI. Meta agreed to buy the agentic AI startup for more than $2bn late last year, then watched Beijing block the deal on national-securit [...]

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the [...]

Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending

Alphabet is raising $80bn in equity, an unusually large sum for a company that has rarely needed to ask. The Google parent announced the plan on Monday to help fund what it called investment in world- [...]

Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s [...]

Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. I [...]