Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool [...]

Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn

For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer i [...]

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a cl [...]

Solidroad raises $25 million to replace manual customer support QA with AI that reviews every conversation

In short: Solidroad, a Dublin and San Francisco startup founded by Intercom alumni, has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Hedosophia to automate customer support quality assurance using AI. The [...]

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. These results were published in a paper called "AI [...]

SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format

As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS found [...]

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. [...]

New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow

In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace, carving out a reputation for delivering frontier-level large language models [...]

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 20 [...]