Robot dogs were supposed to help humans. Now humans are being asked to babysit them

Dimensional advertised $20-an-hour robot dog walkers who might need to carry the machines home. Its software and Anthropic’s research show how much human help useful AI-powered robots can still require.

Agora Labs raises €4.3M to expand clinical data infrastructure for medical research

Italian deeptech company Agora Labs has raised €4.3 million in a fundinground led by venture capital firm P101 SGR, with participation from theMussetto family, owners of Infinite Five, a holding compa…

UK analytics platform Querio launches, with $5M raise

A London-based startup aiming to make business data accessible to more employees through AI has raised $5m in funding as it launches in the market. Querio has raised the funding from investors includi…

Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data
Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data

Remote chief executive Job van der Voort wants his staff to be 10 times more effective a year from now, because their AI tools will be 10 times more effective too. The company runs payroll and hires staff in other countries for its customers. Rather th…

Anthropic prepares for potential $2 trillion IPO valuation after reporting billions in revenue

Anthropic has filed to go public as it pursues a potential multitrillion-dollar valuation, reporting $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026. The company’s filing also warns that its AI safety measures may not prevent catastrophic risks. OpenAI and AI chipmaker Cerebras have also pursued public-market listings

Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages
Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages

Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, the first big update to iOS 27, alongside new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS. Most of the new features are for Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple released in beta in September. Siri AI now wor…

Lette raises $6.5M to scale AI automation for UK rental operators

Lette, an AI-powered platform forresidential property operators, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding toexpand its operations in the UK and support its planned European expansion. Theround was led …

Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone’s memory

Think deleting an AI chat erases everything? Georgia Tech researchers developed a forensic tool that can recover deleted conversations from local AI apps and rebuild the information into a working session.

OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

Hundreds of computer science papers rest on a conjecture that an internal OpenAI model now claims to have refuted, the company said on Monday. OpenAI announced two more results the same day, one in mathematics and one in physics. In a blog post, OpenAI…

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company published the finding…