This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month

Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It [...]

Betting brands are off Premier League shirts. Enterprise software moved in

Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulham’s went to ClickHouse, an American d [...]

Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls

An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowe [...]

China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers

Chinese chip companies are running unusually broad equity schemes to keep engineers, with Cambricon covering 85.3% of its workforce and AMEC more than 97%. Europe’s semiconductor sector has a talent [...]

The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europeâ [...]

A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on

An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s own listing says prompts and co [...]

Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year

Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports [...]

A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds

A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it [...]

Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here

Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models Tenet [...]