Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and touch through their motors, not only cameras. Founder Manuel Yves Galliker…
Universal Music Group (UMG) will license music from its artists and songwriters to TYGER. The service uses AI to make songs follow the action in a video game as people play. The two companies announced the deal today, with UMG the first major music com…
1Password has launched 1Password for Agents, a platform that lets personal AI agents sign in to accounts on a person’s behalf without ever seeing the password. Agents from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXSI are among the first to plug in, the Toronto…
Google will fund a 1 gigawatt virtual power plant run by Voltus on the PJM grid, to supply capacity for its operations there. The deal adds 1,070 megawatts to the 100 megawatts the two agreed in June, the companies said on Thursday. PJM serves 67 milli…
Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed. Some stats on #php2sh…
Taika Waititi and Jenna Ortega’s sci-fi film, Klara and the Sun, offers a chilling warning about AI being used to replace people in a society obsessed with perfection.
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open-source AI model that lets researchers ask questions about DNA in everyday language. Users paste in a genetic sequence, ask a question, and get an answer with an explanation. The model card shows its partners …
Almost six in 10 people working in tech say AI has added to their workload rather than cutting it. That is the headline finding of Web Summit’s first State of the Industry report, published on Thursday. Some 59% said their workload had increased, 20% s…
Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of onboard compute for the version th…
Nebius has signed a $3.5 billion loan facility with Citi to build more data centres and buy GPUs. The Amsterdam-based AI cloud company announced the deal on Thursday. The secured facility runs for 364 days. Interest starts at the Term SOFR benchmark ra…