Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.

A day after New York became the first state to freeze large data centres, Trump demanded it reverse course immediately. Hochul replied within hours.

AI has sued a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate child sexual abuse material, the first such case, while facing suits arguing the opposite.

Emergent's vibe coding platform raised $130M at a $1.5bn valuation, a unicorn a year after launch, as it takes on Lovable, Replit, and Cursor.

FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki and 19 others intend to join Nvidia’s Cosmos Coalition. No binding commitment or money has been disclosed.

STOXX 600 profits are forecast to grow 15.3% in Q2, the most since 2022. Strip out energy and it is 6%, against 19.6% in the US.

At an internal FY27 kickoff, Microsoft executives told sales staff to compare Copilot favourably against Claude and OpenAI on cost, speed and security.

The London startup says plants run on less than 8% of the data they collect. Its Orbital model fuses time series, physics and language. KBR led the $20m round.

Ofcom is investigating whether TikTok can tell which users are children, and whether it keeps harmful content away from them. Fines could reach 10% of global revenue.

Nearly two-thirds of countries in the WHO European Region deploy AI diagnostics. One in 12 has a strategy to govern it. Kluge calls the gap the defining challenge.

Uber has agreed a €41.50-per-share takeover of Delivery Hero valuing it at $14.8bn. In May it offered €33. Fourteen markets go to SSW Partners for $1.6bn ...

Boston Dynamics fitted Spot with a conveyor belt to carry packages from delivery vans to front doors, targeting the last 50 feet of the logistics chain.