All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software
All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software

The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect’s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world’s largest industry by value and o…

Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram

The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta has violated DSA obligations requiring it to prevent underage children from accessing its platforms, a charge previously levelled only at adult content sites. The European Commission has…

EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month
EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month

The collapse of Tuesday’s trilogue exposes deep divisions over whether high-risk AI systems embedded in consumer products should be exempt from the world’s strictest AI rules After 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday, EU member states and European Parl…

OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Stree…

Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.
Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.

Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit “any lawful government purpose,” the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after more than 580 Google employees signed a let…

“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.
“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.” That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk’s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland fede…

Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.
Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, an open-weight multimodal AI model that unifies vision, audio, and language understanding in a single architecture designed to power autonomous AI agents on edge devices. The model has 30 billion paramet…

Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.
Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.

Amazon Web Services announced a set of AI-powered business applications on Tuesday that move the company from selling cloud infrastructure to selling the software that runs on it, a strategic shift that puts Amazon in direct competition with Microsoft,…

OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.
OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.

Amazon Web Services will begin selling OpenAI’s models to its cloud customers, the company announced on Tuesday, one day after Microsoft agreed to end the exclusive reselling arrangement that had given Azure sole access to OpenAI’s technology for the f…

True Anomaly raised $1 billion to build weapons for a programme the Pentagon has not committed to building
True Anomaly raised $1 billion to build weapons for a programme the Pentagon has not committed to building

True Anomaly, the Colorado-based startup that builds autonomous spacecraft for orbital combat, has raised $650 million in Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $1 billion since its founding in August 2022. The r…