Bynario raises €2.1M to develop AI-powered platform for software vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity company Bynario has raised €2.1 million in apre-seed round to develop its AI-powered platform for identifying, prioritisingand addressing software vulnerabilities. The round was led by 3…

Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide
Google and NASA JPL release an AI model that maps methane plumes worldwide

Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Met…

Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans
Google adds three features to its AI plans, and keeps a fourth for Americans

Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across …

Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.
Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in ano…

Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment
Boston Dynamics spinoff looks to build robots for entertainment

Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January …

Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.
Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.

Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Ship…

Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999
Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,999

Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ul…

Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it
Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it

Apple’s new watches can replay the last 15 seconds of a conversation you just had. Press the Digital Crown twice and the words appear as text on your wrist. The feature is called Live Rewind. It arrives with the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Apple Watc…

China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacture…

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and no Siri AI in Europe

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The headline feature is a camera that can change its aperture, which no iPhone has done before. Two of the phone’s flagship features will not work in Europe at launch. Apple announced both mo…