ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 on Tuesday at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing, a video generation model that produces 30-second clips at native 4K resolution from a single prompt. The company skipped four intermediate versions entirel…
Lees meerSecurity firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm…
Lees meerMark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at Meta to build a smartphone app that would compete with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The app, internally called Arena, would operate independen…
Lees meerTen years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% …
Lees meerOracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing stated plainly that “the adoption and deployment of A…
Lees meerGoogle’s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing …
Lees meerStark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The deal values the company at more than three and a half …
Lees meerSeven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the Eu…
Lees meerThe semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performanc…
Lees meerHonda R&D, the independent research arm of Honda Motor Company, has signed a multiyear joint research agreement with California-based QuantumScape to develop and manufacture solid-state battery cells. The deal, announced on June 18, makes Honda the …
Lees meerLastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case data were stolen after hackers breached Klue, a competitive intelligence vendor that held OAuth tokens granting access to LastPass’s Salesforce environment. Th…
Lees meerHaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside profession…
Lees meerMeta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban …
Lees meerFor most of Luminvera’s short life, the pitch came with an AR wearable. The company, incorporated in March 2026 and run out of Silicon Valley, started as a bet that the right device could pull an industrial engineer out of what its founder, Lu Yang,…
Lees meerThe European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up…
Lees meerBristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised £23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems £23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise c…
Lees meerGroq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one …
Lees meerAbu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly …
Lees meerGoogle is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called “Xooglers”, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company’s most capable people leave to start their own AI vent…
Lees meerThe Irish startup is buying B300 GPUs to expand a GDPR-compliant inference platform aimed at the banks, hospitals, and law firms that cannot send their data abroad. TensorX, a startup building AI inference infrastructure that keeps European data ins…
Lees meerThe Paris startup, founded by two former Datadog hands, wants to end the per-byte pricing model just as AI workloads make telemetry explode. Tsuga, a Paris startup building observability software for the age of AI agents, has raised a $35m Series A,…
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