Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo
Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo

Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also…

Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.
Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.

On Wednesday, Arthur Mensch took his seat at a G7 working lunch in Evian alongside Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei. Days earlier, the US government had ordered Amodei’s company to cut foreign nationals off from its most capable models, and…

NeuralTrust closes $20M to expand AI agent security platform

NeuralTrust, a platform for securing AIagents, has raised a $20 million seed financing round, led by Alstin Capital,with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EAVentu…

A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first
A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive…

UC Davis brain implant lets ALS patient speak with 99% accuracy and work full time, no researchers needed
UC Davis brain implant lets ALS patient speak with 99% accuracy and work full time, no researchers needed

A man with ALS has been using a brain implant to speak independently for more than 3,800 hours over the past two years, producing nearly 2 million words with an average speed of 56 words per minute. The study, published Monday in Nature Medicine by res…

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone

Qualcomm announced two products on Tuesday aimed at positioning the company as the silicon supplier for whatever computing device eventually displaces the smartphone. The first is Snapdragon Reality Elite, a mixed reality chip platform with substantial…

Google rolls out Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence, foldable gaming mode, and tighter privacy controls
Google rolls out Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence, foldable gaming mode, and tighter privacy controls

Google is rolling out Android 17 to Pixel devices starting today, delivering multitasking tools, a dedicated foldable gaming mode, and a set of privacy changes that limit how much data apps can collect by default. The update reaches Pixel phones first …

A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds
A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137 remote commands, giving an operator near-total control of an infected phone. The malware, wh…

Snap launches its AR glasses at $2,195 as a consumer product, betting the company on augmented reality
Snap launches its AR glasses at $2,195 as a consumer product, betting the company on augmented reality

Snap unveiled the consumer version of its augmented reality glasses on Monday at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California, pricing them at $2,195 with preorders opening immediately through a $200 refundable deposit. The glasses, which the com…

I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer
I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer

TL;DR: AI is making it easier than ever to build software that looks impressive in a demo. But after working in OpenAI’s first intern cohort, I learned that the real challenge is not just speed. It is judgment: knowing what to trust, what to test, and …