OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt

OpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was announced with con [...]

Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in [...]

OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform

The Amsterdam startup, which gives employees direct anonymous access to psychologists, lifestyle experts, and financial counsellors through their employer, now serves more than 2,000 organisations acr [...]

Neuralink rival Inbrain will ‘never’ take brain implants beyond healthcare

Elon Musk has outlandish plans for Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces, from giving people “superpowers” to downloading their memories. Spanish rival Inbrain Neuroelectronics has a simpler goa [...]

Helsing’s AI submarine joins Europe’s growing ocean drone fleet

Helsing, Europe’s best-funded defence tech startup, has unveiled its latest product — an autonomous mini-submarine for underwater reconnaissance.  Dubbed SG-1 Fathom, the sub is the latest additi [...]

Europe must ‘get real’ on tech sovereignty and stay open, warns industry group

As Europe pushes for tech sovereignty, one open-source advocate has a warning: don’t forget global cooperation. Amanda Brock, CEO of industry group OpenUK, told TNW that the EU must “get real” a [...]

5 impressive feats of DeepMind’s new self-evolving AI coding agent

Google DeepMind’s AI systems have taken big scientific strides in recent years — from predicting the 3D structures of almost every known protein in the universe to forecasting weather more accurat [...]

NATO backs Welsh startup building space factory for ‘supermaterials’

Welsh startup Space Forge has raised $30mn to advance its first commercial in-orbit manufacturing satellite, ForgeStar-2. The NATO Innovation Fund led the funding round, the largest Series A financing [...]

TNW Backstage goes Double Dutch on tech humour

TNW Backstage is going Double Dutch this week — in more ways than one. In the second episode of our new podcast, which goes behind the scenes of TNW Conference and the tech shaping our world, we’r [...]