China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI C [...]

From Bitcoin trading to financial super apps: what nine years of Binance reveal about crypto exchange evolution

Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange i [...]

a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andr [...]

Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move co [...]

The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres

While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Ho [...]

A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.

A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders qui [...]

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 [...]

While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets

The AI industry is obsessed with models that write and talk. SAP has just completed a large bet on a different kind entirely, one built for structured data, as its acquisition of Prior Labs closed. T [...]

Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.

A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, HIT Con [...]