Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber model restricted to trusted testers and governments. Under the EU AI Act every general purpose model placed on the market carries docu…

Uber cuts 10% of its workforce and shuts down in Nigeria and Uganda
Uber cuts 10% of its workforce and shuts down in Nigeria and Uganda

Uber is cutting about 3,300 roles, roughly 10% of its workforce, and shutting down in Nigeria and Uganda as it redirects spending towards robotaxis. Its internal memo says everyone affected has been notified except where local process applies, which in…

Coder launches Agent Relay with SpaceXAI, running Cursor’s cloud agents on customer infrastructure
Coder launches Agent Relay with SpaceXAI, running Cursor’s cloud agents on customer infrastructure

Coder has announced Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment that lets Cursor’s cloud agents run inside a customer’s own infrastructure, with SpaceXAI as launch partner and the product in private preview. Cursor continues to run inference and p…

Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce
Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce

Wonderful has closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation led by Insight Partners with Salesforce participating, eighteen months after being founded and six months after a $150M round at $2B. Its press release is datelined Amsterdam while Israeli techno…

ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer
ElevenLabs hires OpenAI’s Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer

ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly vice president of enterprise sales at OpenAI, as its first chief revenue officer, as more than half its revenue shifts to enterprise customers. Its core product falls under the AI Act’s synthetic content mar…

Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls
Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under …

Opera loses EU court fight to have Microsoft Edge labelled a gatekeeper
Opera loses EU court fight to have Microsoft Edge labelled a gatekeeper

Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera’s challenge to the European Commission’s decision not to designate the browser as a gatekeeper service under the Digital …

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read prices by 75% and reporting 52.6% on a scientific research benchmark against 24.7% for its predecessor. Its outputs carry a watermark r…

Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs
Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…

Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start
Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start

Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the order close to a gigawatt. The European Union had about 1GW of net geoth…