Callosum raises $10.25 million to challenge entrenched AI compute models

London-based AI software startup Callosum has closed a $10.25 million funding round led by European early-stage venture fund Plural, marking a notable bet on multi-chip AI infrastructure at a time whe [...]

AI agents, outdated training and live search grounding

An AI assistant is asked a simple question: has this company changed its CEO? It responds confidently, citing information that was accurate a few months ago. The problem is that the leadership changed [...]

German AI foodtech startup Foodforecast raises €8 Million to cut ultra-fresh food waste

Cologne-based Foodforecast, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve how food with short shelf lives is forecast and produced, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round as it scale [...]

ElevenLabs and Google Cloud expand AI partnership with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support

ElevenLabs, the London-based voice-AI specialist, has deepened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to tap into expanded cloud infrastructure and the latest accelerated computing from NVIDIA, i [...]

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic codi [...]

Generative AI turns identity theft into an industrial-scale operation

A Bloomberg investigation shows how generative AI and autonomous agents are supercharging identity theft in the US, from social security number lookups on the darknet to deepfake driver's license [...]

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic es [...]

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them

An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cl [...]

Lace raises $40M to replace chip-making light with helium atoms

Lace Lithography, founded by a University of Bergen physicist, uses a beam the width of a single hydrogen atom to etch chip features up to ten times smaller than what current extreme ultraviolet litho [...]