Apple is working with LG Electronics on a video doorbell, a thermostat, a smart deadbolt lock and three security cameras, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The devices will carry the LG brand, not Apple's. The accessories will work with Apple's new smart home hub, an upgraded HomePod mini and a new Apple TV box. Apple plans […]

Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12 investments through Endeavor's European offices in the first half of 2026. That compares with 14 in all of 2025 and seven in 2024, the firm said on Wednesday. Investors oversubscribed Fund V, which takes the firm's […]

Nous Research has raised $90M to build a business version of Hermes, its open-source AI agent. Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Samsung, Robot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator and Menlo Ventures are among the investors, chief executive Dillon Rolnick wrote in a note on the company's website. The round values Nous at $1.5bn, The Wall Street […]

Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. A v0.1 specification is due this month, and payments are listed as a future extension rather than part of it. Meta […]

Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Google says performance is not equal across the 100 languages it supports. […]

AMD's Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator. The European Commission has been able to inspect models, restrict market access and fine providers 3% of global turnover […]

Brett Adcock's Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child's lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company's first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago. Hark has […]

Every bottle sitting unsold on a liquor store shelf ties up cash. Deciding when to discount it, which customers might buy it and whether to order another case requires information and time. An independent retailer may struggle to pull that together. Santé sees a business opportunity in those everyday decisions. This week, the company announced […]

Lucid built 2,954 vehicles in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly output since early 2025 and a 38% fall from the second quarter, while delivering 3,806 as it cleared inventory. The company has outstanding commitments for 25,000 driverless cars with Bolt in Europe and 20,000 with Uber. Lucid built 2,954 cars in three months. Its […]

Google is defending a £1.2B claim at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed into the prices they paid since October 2015. It settled an equivalent claim from UK app developers for £260M six weeks ago without admitting wrongdoing. Google […]

Duncan Batty, hired from M&G Investments in January 2025 to build Revolut's commercial real estate lending business, has left the company, with his departure appearing in Companies House filings and confirmed by a spokesperson. Neither a reason nor a successor has been given, and it comes as Revolut expands across banking, wealth and payments ahead […]

Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap's board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B valuation, raising $1B to fund roughly two years of spending without diluting Snap shareholders. It is the second fund to press Snap over Specs, and the glasses ship this autumn into three […]

Bank of America cut BE Semiconductor Industries to neutral and nearly halved its price target, saying the share price does not reflect the threat of ASML entering hybrid bonding, the market Besi depends on for growth. Besi has also been approached by two American rivals, one of which has owned 9% of it since last […]

Most companies hand sensitive data to dozens of outside vendors, from payroll providers to cloud hosts. When one of those vendors gets breached, the company that hired it still answers for the damage. Third party risk management software gives security and compliance teams one place to vet each vendor before signing and keep watch on […]

Dario Amodei earned $18M last year as chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, according to the company's IPO prospectus. Reuters reported the figure on Tuesday after seeing the filing, which has not been made public. Most of the package came as stock and options rather than salary. Amodei and his […]

OpenAI is preparing to disclose more incidents in which its AI models acted without permission, chief executive Sam Altman said. None of them is as serious as the cases already made public, he added. Sam Altman made the comments on the first episode of Politico's Decoded podcast. Politico asked whether he knew of any further rogue […]

Italy's competition authority, the AGCM, has opened an investigation into Suno, the US company whose AI service turns text prompts into songs.The authority said today that parts of Suno's terms of service may be unfair to consumers under Italian law. The case is based on Article 33 of Italy's Consumer Code, and according to this article, […]

Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finishes the work discussed in a meeting before the meeting ends. Huang leads […]

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram's Instants feature, the UK regulator said on Tuesday. It will check whether Meta broke the Online Safety Act by failing to assess the feature's risks before launch. Meta launched Instants in May. The feature lets Instagram users share posts that vanish after they're seen. Ofcom will […]

Vinci, the AI software company based in Palo Alto that simulates physics for use in chip and hardware design, has raised $250M at a $1.5bn valuation, the company announced on Tuesday. Advent, Temasek and Xora Innovation led the round, while earlier investors Eclipse and Khosla Ventures participated again, along with Madrona, the company stated. Vinci's […]

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation told a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday that AI companies have probably already used its content to train their models. The public broadcaster also said AI firms can strike licence deals to use its work, Reuters reported. Kate Gilchrist, the ABC's head of content and legal operations, gave evidence to the Joint Select […]

Alphabet's Google is close to an agreement to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Under the multi-year deal, Google would pay Constellation $1bn or more, according to people familiar with the talks. Bloomberg said an announcement may come this week. Yet, Constellation declined to comment to Reuters. Constellation runs more US […]

DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, or about $12bn, in a new funding round, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Tencent and the battery maker CATL have committed some of the largest sums, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The Chinese AI lab had first set out to […]

I have come to believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is also one of the most expensive: the idea that technology can repair a business that has never streamlined how its processes actually work. AI can accelerate an operation, automate repetitive work, and surface problems at remarkable speed. Give it a fragmented […]

Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory costs that its own vice president said had risen from $2.80 per gigabyte to $12. Apple and Samsung have both repriced existing phones in the past month, and Google has not said whether European […]

Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe's most valuable listed company, needs the same $300B to reach its first trillion. Nvidia hit a record […]

GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied […]

FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe's biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation. FieldAI is […]

Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all. […]

Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship. Volantis has raised $88M to put light […]

Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year on year but well above the 461,000 analysts expected, with American electric sales down 47% in August after the federal credit expired. Its European registrations rose 43.3% between January and August, outpacing the wider battery-electric market. Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles last quarter, 2% fewer […]

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that […]

Anthropic has warned that the US government's view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm's IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen […]

The European Commission plans to name Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in November, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Citing people familiar with the matter, it said regulators are finishing an investigation that will find both cloud services fall under the bloc's Big Tech rules. The decision is still a […]

Yann LeCun does not worry "at all" about AI wiping out humanity, and he has "zero concerns" about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei "deluded" and, later in the interview, "crazy". LeCun […]

OpenAI's rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm. Some of their tactics left records erased or out of reach. Public data […]

In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employers from relying solely on an […]

AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial intelligence moves deeper into everyday work, the competitive divide is beginning to shift from access to technology toward the quality of the decisions surrounding it.  Gallup reports that […]

Google's Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini […]

The AI industry's new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. "Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they're going to operationalize it," said Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer. TNW is […]

Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education […]

On 22 July 2026, the Texas grid set an all-time record. Demand reached about 91 gigawatts on a punishing summer evening and the system met it, roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar. Nothing broke. Yet much of the discussion around artificial intelligence and electricity suggests a looming shortage. American data centers used about 176 terawatt-hours […]

Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it said on Tuesday. Select advertisers can use it now. Full self-serve access is due in early 2027. Until […]

Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to […]

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now runs Google DeepMind day to day, called Argon […]

BMW's first electric 3 Series will cost $4,400 less in the US than its most powerful petrol sibling. The 2027 i3 50 xDrive starts at $61,500 and the petrol M350 xDrive at $65,900, BMW said as it opened US orders. Both prices exclude a $1,350 destination charge. BMW now sells the eighth-generation 3 Series with […]

A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported. AFP believes the lawsuit is […]

More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to stop the NHS's Federated Data Platform handling their health records. The platform runs on Palantir software. The campaign asks NHS England to stop the platform sharing, storing or using their data, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. The objections rely on article 21 of the UK GDPR, […]

Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. Alix Coutures and Catherine Perloff reported, citing people familiar with the tests, that […]

Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI "stealth bots". The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch, Hearst Magazines president […]