SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back an $800m Agile Robots round

SoftBank, it seems, is not done buying robots. The Japanese group is in early talks to back a new funding round of around $800m (€700m) for Agile Robots, the Munich startup that builds robot arms, w [...]

Kareem Rahmas Subway Takes is a challenge to late-night talk shows

Kareen Rahma's "Subway Takes" is captivating social media by debating opinions with celebrities and random people on the subway. [...]

Fantastic Frankey is the internets ultimate fangirl

Frankey Smith, also known as Fantastic Frankey across social media, has built a loyal fandom by talking about DC, Marvel, and pop culture. [...]

Alberta Tech: The tech creator and Google engineer helping everyone keep up with AI

Alberta Tech has gained a loyal audience on social media through her easily digestible explainers on all things tech, startups, and AI. " [...]

Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new [...]

Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there

Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two [...]

Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list

CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting com [...]

Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built

Mistral set out the plan on 11 August. Its own announcement covers three things at once. Regional endpoints are now generally available, letting customers pick Europe or the US for inference. A Priori [...]

Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how [...]