A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway.

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “chat control” bill to find child abuse material online. [...]

NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI

NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINE [...]

Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment a [...]

Reddit now lets users reply to any post with video comments

Reddit has launched video comments for all users. The feature lets any Redditor upload or record a short-form video reply directly in the comments of any post. It rolls out across all public, safe-for [...]

Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life

The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landl [...]

Nvidia partner Bizlink buys Blackstone’s Interplex data centre unit for $850 million

Bizlink Holding, a Taiwanese manufacturer of cables, connectors, and power distribution systems, has agreed to buy the information and communications technology unit of Blackstone’s Interplex for $8 [...]

SEALSQ takes majority of WeCan to build a post-quantum AI compliance co-pilot for private banks

The Swiss post-quantum-crypto firm has lifted its WeCan stake from 28% to majority and committed CHF 5M to accelerate AI-compliance tooling for Pictet, Lombard Odier and Barclays. Geneva-based SEALSQ [...]

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- [...]

Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’

CBA chief executive Matt Comyn used the phrase ‘work slop’ to describe the low-quality AI output now flowing through corporate workflows, as token-billed AI costs scale with task complexity. Matt [...]