World open-sources ProveKit to bring private ID checks to everyday smartphones

The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy te [...]

Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it

Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software companies can build an ancillary tool, prove that it solves a real problem, and still sta [...]

Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days

NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and [...]

Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burn [...]

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 [...]

YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Rom [...]

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspac [...]

groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era

groundcover, an observability startup that keeps customers’ monitoring data inside their own cloud, has raised $100 million in a Series C round. The financing was led by the growth investor One Pea [...]

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend

The startup, whose agents negotiate and pay across procurement for the likes of Unilever and Pfizer, is betting enterprises want software that acts, not software that suggests. Freehand, a startup who [...]