Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with [...]

Uncovr raises $7M for AI that writes the operative report before the surgeon leaves the room

Uncovr, a surgical AI startup based in New York and Paris, has raised $7M in seed funding to turn the video from an operation into its official written record. The round was led by Index Ventures. See [...]

Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway

The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence [...]

Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker

When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: “developer.” While accurate, it’s a modest label for someone whose work has stretched well beyond writing [...]

Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US

Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised as debt rather than equity and at a sca [...]

Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was a [...]

Ace Combat 8 Brings Aerial Dogfighting Into the Misinformation Age

The first game in the franchise in seven years includes loads of modernization changes -- including adding social media misinfo to fighter plane fantasy. [...]

Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic

Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft’s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” the hea [...]

EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those [...]