Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts
Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts

Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstr…

Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant
Bridge Neurotech raises $13.5M to read brains with ultrasound, no implant

Bridge Neurotech came out of stealth on Tuesday with $13.5M in funding. It plans a brain-computer interface that needs no surgery and no implant. The startup wants to use ultrasound to read brain activity through the skull. It also signed a research de…

Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO
Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machin…

Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg
Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg

Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg. Tan made the comments before a Tokyo event on Wednesday celebrating 50 years of Intel’s operations in Japan. His …

Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work
Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work

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 …

Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats
Uber to buy ezCater for $2.3bn to bring workplace catering to Uber Eats

Uber has agreed to buy ezCater, a US platform for workplace catering, for $2.3bn in cash. Uber and ezCater announced the deal in a joint statement on Tuesday. The purchase brings ezCater’s catering orders to Uber Eats and to Uber for Business, Uber’s s…

Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting
Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting

Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finis…

Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach
Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach

An Accenture contractor has been removed from FBI work following a breach that exposed the personal data of thousands of bureau staff. The FBI acted on Monday, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. A senior FBI official told Reu…

Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent…

Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police
Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police

Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 Sept…