Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end
Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end

Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a robotics-focused fund, and follows a $63 million raise nearly two years ago…

Rotomate raises €2.1M to automate industrial reliability analysis

Finnishindustrial AI startup Rotomate has raised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding, ledby Kvanted, with participation from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel throughits scout programme, and Business Fi…

Legal AI startup Legora opens in Madrid, Milan, and Paris as it targets 700 European employees within a year
Legal AI startup Legora opens in Madrid, Milan, and Paris as it targets 700 European employees within a year

Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, is opening offices in Madrid, Milan, and Paris during Q3 2026, alongside a dedicated engineering hub in London. Hiring across all four locations has begun, with the company targeting a combined E…

Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce
Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire m3ter, a London-based metering and rating platform built for consumption-based billing. The deal will integrate m3ter’s infrastructure natively into Agentforce Revenue Management, giving Salesforc…

TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs
TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increase…

Supermicro plans to raise $7 billion to fulfill $39 billion in AI server orders
Supermicro plans to raise $7 billion to fulfill $39 billion in AI server orders

Super Micro Computer plans to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to purchase components for its AI servers. The company said Tuesday it has received approximately $39 billion in orders from more than 20 customers in recent weeks for…

Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic’s new frontier model is ‘state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks’

After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is “safe for general use.”

Apple and Google both want to monitor the web for you
Apple and Google both want to monitor the web for you

Two of the biggest names in tech now want to watch the web on your behalf. Within a month, both Google and Apple announced features that monitor web pages and tell you when something changes. Both claim they will use AI to alert you when a condition is…

Anthropic’s warning over AI self-improvement has a hidden message — accelerating development requires more compute before companies ever risk losing control of frontier AI models

The company that just a few weeks ago told us that its Mythos model was much too powerful to be released is now saying that we might need to hit the pause button.

The EU just ordered Meta to let rival AI assistants back onto WhatsApp within five days
The EU just ordered Meta to let rival AI assistants back onto WhatsApp within five days

The European Commission has ordered Meta to “restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general purpose AI assistants” within five working days. The interim measures, announced on Tuesday, are designed to prevent what the Commission called “serious and …