TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre

The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 wi [...]

Your team’s whiteboard just got its own AI agents, and they already know the context

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeding an AI tool the same context your team spent three days assembling on a whiteboard. You copy the sticky notes into a prompt, paste the [...]

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

In short: Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting a terawatt of AI compute per year, handing [...]

Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during intern [...]

Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety o [...]

Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source

In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuil [...]

Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs

In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, [...]

Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform

Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the b [...]

Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment [...]