Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car
Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car

London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on Thursday in a fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es, each one supervised by a licensed driver who can take over. Ube…

Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499
Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499

Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years develop…

Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude
Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude

Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already r…

Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks
Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new product would cost 25 times that. Meta will launch i…

Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil
Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with Freshfields, Cleary and Weil

Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market, with Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly among the launch customers. It arrives in a category where the specialists …

Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones
Xiaomi’s new Xring O3 is built at TSMC, and aimed at a few hundred thousand phones

Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. The chip pulls computing, graphics, AI processing, and imaging onto a singl…

Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power
Phonak’s new EON hearing aids run two AI systems on a chip built to sip power

Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The So…

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, s…

Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the co…

Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift
Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift

Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attac…