NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world

NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a [...]

This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom

Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Vent [...]

Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond its home turf. The company [...]

Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up

The European Commission has opened the bidding to build up to seven AI “gigafactories,” vast computing hubs meant to give the bloc the raw power to train frontier AI models without depending on th [...]

SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targetin [...]

Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow

The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard [...]

Ubisoft is in crisis, and a 13-year-old pirate game is part of the escape plan

Ubisoft has remade the best-loved game in its biggest franchise. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives 13 years after the original, and the BBC found it largely worth the wait. The Caribbean [...]

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts [...]

China just caught a rocket in a net, and SpaceX should be watching

SpaceX lands its rockets on legs. Blue Origin uses a platform. China just caught one in a giant net. China has recovered the first stage of an orbital rocket for the first time. The milestone pulls it [...]