Google’s new music tool, Lyria 3 is here

Google’s announcement that its Gemini app now writes music for you isn’t just one of those “blowing my mind” product updates. It feels like a symbolic surrender to a long-standing refrain from [...]

Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys

"It raises the possibility that social motivation plays a role in why some dogs end up learning object names." [...]

Three more senior executives leave OpenAI as the company kills its side quests

Summary: Three senior OpenAI executives, former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan – departed on the same day as the company shuts down “side quests” i [...]

TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buye [...]

Zurich’s Rapidata raises €7.2M to build a real-time human feedback network for AI

A growing number of startups are rushing to build software that thinks fast. But one of the hardest parts of teaching machines to improve isn’t raw computing power, it’s human insight at scale. Zu [...]

Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection

Copenhagen-area AgTech startup Mycoverse has secured €2.4 million in pre-seed equity financing to advance a biological crop protection platform that uses fungi to replace or reduce chemical pesticid [...]

The EU’s strategic rebalancing of research partnerships with China

In 2026, one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly €93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant tra [...]

OpenAI forms “Frontier Alliances” with top consultancies to push enterprise AI into production

OpenAI is broadening how it helps large organizations put artificial intelligence into real use. The company announced a new initiative, Frontier Alliances, teaming up with four major consulting firms [...]

Summer Game Fest runs from June 5-8

It's getting to be that time of year again. Summer Game Fest officially kicks off on June 5 and will go until June 8. The Live Kickoff show will once again be hosted by Geoff Keighley and takes p [...]