A $13,500 Unitree robot was ‘ordained’ at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple

At about ten in the morning on Wednesday, in the courtyard of Daeungjeon Hall at Jogyesa, a 130-centimetre humanoid in brown robes pressed its palms together and bowed. A monk asked the figure whether [...]

SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok

SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Spac [...]

China hits back at the Pentagon with curbs on 56 US firms

China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington adding Chinese firms to its military blacklist. China has answered the [...]

Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts

Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation dete [...]

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Globa [...]

Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multip [...]

Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table

Samsung Electronics will invest 39 trillion dong, or about $1.5bn, in a semiconductor testing plant in Vietnam, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Construction has already begun in [...]

Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for businesses

Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the assistant into a tool for businesses and creators. The app can watch a window on your screen and answ [...]

DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances

Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investo [...]