A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded M…
Germany will push for fast EU-wide approval of Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance system, transport minister Steffen Bilger said on Tuesday. Elon Musk thanked him in German on X a day later, as Tesla tries to win over a bloc where it is so far cleared …
Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana, has spoken to voters through an AI copy of himself, promising free school meals. The video was posted on his official Instagram account and is indeed labelled as AI-generated content. The main probl…
The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies, according to the Financial Times, which spoke with six officials who are familiar with the discussions. The Commission plans to do this by i…
Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the $90 million Series B. Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Speedinvest, Fl…
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection offi…
BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations h…
Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal access to the register. Denmark’s digitalisation ministry announced the breac…
Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General Catalyst led the round, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as …
Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone…