Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor port [...]

RWS launches Language Weaver Pro

The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemi [...]

PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles

The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionari [...]

OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.

Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips, the gol [...]

Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites

The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tues [...]

Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected [...]

Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues

Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributo [...]

Surfshark warns personal devices are a 'wide-open door' as UK Prime Minister falls for impersonation scam

Following the news that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was targeted by a Trump aide impersonator, cybersecurity experts warn that billion-dollar perimeters are useless against modern social engineerin [...]

Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order. [...]