This trend highlights the significant financial activity in the AI sector, including venture capital investments, funding rounds for AI startups, and government initiatives to support AI development. It covers a range of companies and projects, from AI-focused hardware manufacturers to software platforms and research institutions.
Orbital, an AI platform for real estate law, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round. The company aims to expand its presence in the US and UK, further developing its technology to automate legal processes in the real estate sector and cre...
Venture capital firm 2150 announced the final close of its €210 million second fund, bringing total assets under management to €500 million. The fund focuses on technology companies seeking to reshape cities and the industries that power them, with a...
Meta is facing a lawsuit alleging misleading privacy claims regarding WhatsApp. The plaintiffs claim that Meta's workers can access user messages, contradicting the company's statements about end-to-end encryption.
This week's World Economic Forum meeting saw tech leaders hotly debating artificial intelligence. The event transformed, at times, into a high-powered tech conference, with CEOs clashing over future visions and strategies.
It’s getting hard to tell which AI labs are actually trying to make money. A rating system has been created to help sort it out.
A Swiss Brown cow named Veronika has been observed using tools to scratch herself, a behavior previously documented mainly in primates, orcas, and birds. The discovery challenges assumptions about bovine intelligence and raises questions about the ro...
A prompt library for large language models (LLM), specifically designed for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, has been created and made available. The library includes prompts focused on grounding constraints, citation rules, and ha...
The increasing energy consumption of artificial intelligence poses new challenges. Geopolitical tensions over rare earths and packaging innovations are reshaping global supply chains. An analysis by DIGITIMES highlights how these interconnected facto...
AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's new venture after leaving Meta, has immediately captured the attention of the industry. The company will focus on developing advanced AI models, promising to revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence. LeCun, a leading ...
Sweep AI has released a 1.5B parameter open-source model, named Sweep, designed to predict the next code edits. Available on Hugging Face and via a JetBrains plugin, this tool uses recent edits as context, outperforming larger models in speed and acc...
In the development of voice agents, the debate focuses on the relative importance between model quality and the definition of effective behavioral constraints. A smarter model does not always translate into superior performance if not properly constr...
The past week witnessed significant tech funding activity in Europe, with over €2.7 billion distributed across more than 70 deals. Key highlights include the launch of EU Inc at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the announcement of new investment...
Taiwan's automotive industry shows signs of recovery after recent tariff negotiations. A DIGITIMES analysis reveals a 15% improvement, while highlighting the need for further reassurance for sustainable growth in the sector.
Taiwan's technology sector is pressuring the local government to increase the supply of green energy and reduce its costs. Taiwanese tech companies, increasingly focused on sustainability, are calling for a greener energy supply and competitive tarif...
Agileday, a Finland-based technology company developing an operating platform for professional services, has closed a €6.4 million Series A funding round. The investment, led by Newion, will allow the company to scale its technology platform and acce...
Anthropic has seen strong interest in its latest funding round, exceeding expectations. At the same time, the company's revenue projections are increasing, despite pressure on margins. This success reflects investor confidence in Anthropic's strategy...
Inference startup Inferact has secured $150 million in funding. This investment round values the newly formed company at $800 million. The primary goal is the commercialization of vLLM technology.
Feast, an open-source feature store for production AI, officially joins the PyTorch Ecosystem. This alignment aims to streamline the transition from model development to production deployment by addressing data inconsistencies between training and se...
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect environment for the spread of disinformation on an unprecedented scale and speed. Experts warn that detecting these manipulative campaigns is becoming increasingly difficult, jeopardizing dem...
A recent study by the Brookings Institution highlights how some professions with a high percentage of female workers are particularly vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence. Dentists, on the other hand, appear to be among the least expos...
Google now offers college-bound students a new free resource: practice SAT exams powered by Gemini's artificial intelligence. The initiative aims to make test preparation more accessible, leveraging the advanced capabilities of Google's language mode...
Google's new AI mode can now access content from Gmail and Google Photos to provide tailored responses. The company clarifies that the model is not directly trained on user data, but on the interactions between specific prompts and the model's respon...
Anthropic has been revising its technical assessment test for job applicants since 2024. The goal is to prevent candidates from using AI tools, including its own Claude, to cheat on the test. The test is designed to evaluate the skills of potential h...
A team of former Google employees is developing Sparkli, an interactive application powered by generative artificial intelligence, designed to make learning more engaging for children. The app aims to overcome the limitations of current solutions, wh...
OpenAI and ServiceNow have partnered to embed artificial intelligence models and agents into enterprise workflows. The goal is to improve efficiency and automate complex processes within companies, leveraging the advanced capabilities of generative A...
AMI Labs is in talks to reach a valuation of EUR 3 billion. The goal is to compete with the most popular artificial intelligence models on the market. The initiative could lead to a more competitive landscape in the AI sector, offering alternatives t...
Sparkli, an AI-based learning platform for children, has raised a $5 million pre-seed round. The goal is to bring its multimodal learning engine to families and schools globally. Founded by ex-Google employees, the platform aims to transform screen t...
Upscale AI has raised $200 million in Series A funding to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the market for switches for rack-scale AI systems. The company plans to use the funds to develop its own SkyHammer silicio-based UALink switches, entering into ...
The prestigious AI conference NeurIPS is facing a growing problem: the presence of "hallucinated" citations within scientific papers. Startup GPTZero has highlighted how, in the age of AI-generated content, even the most authoritative venues risk pub...
Anthropic has introduced a new constitution for Claude, its flagship language model. This update aims to improve the model's alignment with human values and make it safer and more effective in its applications. The initiative represents a crucial ste...
YouTube is introducing a feature that will allow content creators to make Shorts using AI versions of themselves. Viewers might soon see AI avatars of their favorite YouTubers while scrolling through Shorts feeds.
Adobe is integrating artificial intelligence tools into Acrobat, offering new features such as automatic podcast summary generation, presentation creation, and file editing via text prompts. The goal is to simplify and speed up user workflows.
AI cost efficiency clashes with data sovereignty, forcing companies to rethink their risk frameworks. The case of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, raises concerns about data sharing with state intelligence services. This requires stricter governance, espe...
Aerospace company SWISSto12 has secured €73 million in financial support from ESA to accelerate the development of the HummingSat platform. The funding will be used to industrialize HummingSat, increase manufacturing capacity, and promote new product...
Berlin-based Cloover has secured $1.2 billion in debt and equity funding to develop an AI-powered operating system aimed at accelerating the energy transition. The funds will support expansion into new European markets and further development of its ...
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot program to advance AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028, bringing innovation and improving access to medical care.
oToBrite Electronics is expanding its full-domain visual AI solutions. The company's automotive-grade cameras are entering the unmanned vehicle and robotics markets, opening new application and growth opportunities.
OpenAI has begun deploying an age prediction model for its ChatGPT users. The goal is to filter access to sensitive or potentially harmful content for underage users. This initiative could unlock new monetization opportunities by restricting access b...
Mozilla is now offering native RPM packages of Firefox Nightly for Linux distributions in the Red Hat and SUSE families. This provides users with more installation options to try out the latest features of the open-source browser.
Texas-based Noveon Magnetics has raised $215 million to expand its U.S. operations. The investment aims to improve American access to rare-earth magnets, essential for HDD production and crucial for reducing reliance on China. An estimated $630 milli...
Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise technology world. But are AI PCs really that widespread? An analysis of the role of computing power (TOPS) in the adoption of AI PCs in the enterprise and whether this parameter is the ...
Z.ai has introduced GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B MoE model designed for local inference. Optimized for coding, agentic workflows, and chat, the model boasts high performance with only 3.6B active parameters and supports a 200K token context. GLM-4.7-Flash ex...
Belgian business software company Odoo has reached a fresh milestone, exceeding €7 billion valuation. Growth investor General Atlantic has increased its stake in the firm, buying additional shares from Wallonie Entreprendre. This move isn’t a typical...
EIT Food's Straight2Market program facilitates the entry of agrifood startups into the European market by directly connecting them with major retailers. The initiative offers financial support, market testing, and experimentation opportunities for in...
Berlin-based GeneralMind has raised $12 million in funding to develop an AI system that automates operational workflows, particularly in supply chain management. The goal is to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency by integrating with ERP...
Official support for GLM 4.7 Flash has been merged into llama.cpp. This integration, reported on Reddit, allows developers to leverage the capabilities of GLM 4.7 Flash within the llama.cpp environment, opening up new possibilities for inference and ...
A user wonders about the possible uses of small language models like Gemma 3:1b. These models, while running on less powerful hardware, open up interesting scenarios. It remains to be seen whether they are suitable for basic tasks or simple calculati...
2024 was a pivotal year for the AI industry in the US and beyond. It remains to be seen whether 2025 will be equally positive. Analysis reveals that numerous AI startups have raised over $100 million in funding, marking an unprecedented wave of inves...
The Isle of Man Government has launched its National AI Office (NAIO), backed by a £1 million investment. The aim is to coordinate the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence across the island, supporting businesses and the public sector. The...
Belfast-based sports technology company TeamFeePay has completed a £9 million equity funding round to support expansion into new markets and planned recruitment. The round was led by investments from YFM Equity Partners and the Investment Fund for No...
Ananda Impact Ventures has completed a €73 million first close of its fifth Core Impact Fund, exceeding its €50 million target. The fund focuses on early-stage, technology-driven startups addressing social and environmental challenges in Europe. Back...
