A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block

A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement t [...]

Dutch contractor rules just changed, and the bill is backdated

Somewhere in Amsterdam there is a developer who has invoiced the same foreign company every month for three years. Same rate, same hours, same Slack channel, same standup at 09:30. Everyone involved h [...]

Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank

Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construct [...]

Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings

A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If [...]

'I honestly thought Highguard looked pretty good' — Gears of War creator laments internet culture where it's 'cool to hate' new games

The creator of Gears of War has taken to social media to post about the negative culture surrounding new live-service games. [...]

Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand

Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company that has done more than anyone else to turn Chinese humanoid robots into a spectator sport, is due to begin trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August, acc [...]

The AI maths breakthroughs everyone quotes are counterexamples, not proofs

A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one [...]

Uber is partnering with drone-delivery firm Zipline and targets a million drone deliveries a day

Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, sweetened by an undis [...]

Azerbaijan wants to become a tech hub as its startups raised $2.6m last year

Every petrostate eventually discovers that the oil will not last forever, and Azerbaijan has reached the stage of the story where the government starts talking about technology. Hydrocarbons once made [...]