A $13,500 Unitree robot was ‘ordained’ at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple
A $13,500 Unitree robot was ‘ordained’ at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple

At about ten in the morning on Wednesday, in the courtyard of Daeungjeon Hall at Jogyesa, a 130-centimetre humanoid in brown robes pressed its palms together and bowed. A monk asked the figure whether it would devote itself to the holy Buddha. The repl…

Europe’s cumulative EV investment passes €200bn
Europe’s cumulative EV investment passes €200bn

New AutoMotive’s data tracker, reported by Reuters on Sunday, marks the threshold and puts the question to industrial policy: how much of the headline number will end up producing cells at scale, given that roughly 600 GWh of announced European battery…

Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push
Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push

BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan have the mandate. Maturities run from three years to 25 years. The trade follows Alphabet’s record Swiss issuance in February and Amazon’s $37bn dollar deal in March, and is the latest demonstration that hypersca…

Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors
Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors

Innovation Industries leads the Series A. imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC, HTGF, and BOM return. Total funding now stands at €55m. The money funds in-house chip design and a push toward volume sensors built on the company’s NCOS color-splitt…

Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon’s class of 2026 their career starts at the AI revolution
Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon’s class of 2026 their career starts at the AI revolution

NVIDIA’s CEO delivered the keynote at CMU’s 128th commencement on Sunday and received an honorary doctorate. The address framed AI as a reindustrialisation moment for the US, and pressed both engineers and policymakers to advance capability and safety …

Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline
Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline

Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yazı…

GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty
GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty

Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. The…

TNW, Oneflow, and Flexas are hosting a free networking evening in Amsterdam
TNW, Oneflow, and Flexas are hosting a free networking evening in Amsterdam

A speaker panel, food, and a room full of people who actually want to connect. The gathering takes place on 3 June at Flexas.com in the heart of the city. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from attending the wrong networking event. Yo…

Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025
Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025

The complaint says a backstage shot from the 2024 Austin City Limits Festival ended up on Crystal UHD packaging in retail and online channels worldwide, and that Samsung ignored her cease-and-desist requests. Dua Lipa filed a $15 million federal lawsui…

Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI
Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI

The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictio…