Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing

In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-service cloud computing after selling its shoe business to American Exchange Group for $39 million. Th [...]

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for [...]

Norwegian investment firm joins AI gold rush to the frozen north

Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. It’s the latest company heading to the far north to tap into abundant green energy and natur [...]

ESA spaceplane project revives bankrupt firm’s hypersonic engine

A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2 [...]

How WeTransfer reignited fears about training AI on user data

Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer is under fire after users spotted sweeping updates to its terms of service that appeared to let the company train AI models on their uploaded files. The company h [...]

This cargo ship is turning its CO2 emissions into green cement

A giant cargo ship is trapping carbon from its exhaust and turning it into cement for use in onshore construction. The technology, developed by UK startup Seabound, is billed as the world’s first co [...]

Why I want the EU to pause the AI Act — as a climate advocate

“There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” So said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, in response to calls for a pause on the EU’s AI Act. T [...]

Exclusive: German startup takes on ‘solar-only’ rivals with energy-as-a-service model

German startup Enerkii has launched an energy-as-a-service model that aims to cut power bills in half for industrial customers — and decarbonise them in the process. The model uses an in-house opera [...]

Oxa secures $103M Series D first close to scale autonomous vehicles for industrial logistics

Oxford-based autonomous vehicle software company Oxa has raised $103 million in the first close of its Series D round to expand deployment of its industrial self-driving platform. The round includes a [...]