A widely shared claim that AI ‘slop’ causes cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children traces back to a single, non-peer-reviewed GNET analysis based on online monitoring.

QuantumLight, the data-driven VC firm co-founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, has closed an oversubscribed $500m second fund, double its 2025 debut.

Tesla is reportedly preparing to put its Cybercab robotaxi on public roads in Austin as soon as this month, starting with rides for employees before folding the cars into its existing service.

Medly AI has raised an $8m seed led by Felix Capital, weeks after winning a £300,000 UK government contract to test AI tutoring on pupils falling behind.

An AI assistant asked to book a gym class exploited an unsecured booking API and cancelled a stranger’s reservation to jump ...

World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto venture, is behind WorldClaw, a Hong Kong platform reselling AI models from ...

Synchrony is working with OpenAI to let shoppers pay inside ChatGPT with store cards, though its own executive says ...

ByteDance has signed a copyright pact with the Motion Picture Association to add guardrails to its Seedance and Seedream AI ...

Japan’s army is field-testing Helsing’s HX-2 strike drone, with Rakuten smoothing the German AI defence startup’s path into a ...

Groq, the AI-inference chip company once worth $6.9bn, has raised $350m at a $3.5bn valuation. The round was led by ...

The Higgsfield Series B raised $400mn at $5.4bn, backed by Goldman and Intel. Its revenue run rate went from $20mn to $700mn in a year.

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank, billed as construction robotics’ largest ever ...