The Italian state just backed €500m for the company that owns AOL

Bending Spoons has agreed a €500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italy’s export credit agency, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and F [...]

Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest

Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures co-led the round. The Salt Lake City company says it [...]

Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chat [...]

Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.

Starbucks told NomadGo on 3 April that it was scrapping the AI inventory tool the Redmond startup had built for it. Within days the 30-person company cut a large part of its workforce, according to Ge [...]

AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between [...]

The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call

The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a live call. Discovery is finished, the buyer is engaged, and the conversation has mo [...]

How artificial intelligence is used to streamline corporate travel logistics

The evolution of enterprise software has solved countless operational bottlenecks over the past decade. Supply chains are mapped in real time, and global payrolls execute automatically across dozens [...]

Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.

The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office w [...]

Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed

Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature [...]