TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs

TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment system, Bloomberg report [...]

Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a s [...]

Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO

Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offer [...]

ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wasted a quarter of the energy

Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between 12.7% and 24.2% of the electricity drawn. An 11 kW wallbox cut every car’s losses to between 5. [...]

California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Europe’s, which has had one since 2012

California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replacement tyres, capping rolling resistance from 2029 and tightening it in 2033. Europe has enforced a [...]

Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England

Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six times its current footprint. Its only British site, in Darlington, is under an AAIB accident investig [...]

Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it

Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet an [...]

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reporte [...]

India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voice AI leaders

Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of what ElevenLabs charges. The company says it scores above some OpenAI models on the [...]