Backed by Mistral AI founders, NP Company secures €6M pre-seed to advance AI for engineering

NP Company (NP Co.), anAI-native simulation software company serving the aerospace, defence, energy,electronics, data centre, and automotive industries, has raised a €6 millionpre-seed funding round. …

Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika
Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika

Verily, the health and life sciences subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release up to 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California over two years. The proposal, submi…

Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI
Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

The global health care sector is under increasing strain.  Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia wants to ‘reinvent the single most important tool of humanity’ with RTX Spark — Nvidia CEO touts support of ‘literally every computer maker in the world’ for its agentic AI PC platform

In a press Q&A held at Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed why the company is entering the PC market now and its ambitions for the future of computing.

Poindexter Labs raises £2M to improve training data for advanced AI

UK-based Poindexter Labs, an AI data company focusedon producing expert-level training data for advanced AI models, has raised £2million in an oversubscribed seed round. The funding was led by Episode…

How small businesses can leverage AI

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. A large company can hire experts to…

Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’
Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’

CBA chief executive Matt Comyn used the phrase ‘work slop’ to describe the low-quality AI output now flowing through corporate workflows, as token-billed AI costs scale with task complexity. Matt Comyn, chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Austr…

Bayshore raises $8M to turn compliance rules into code

Munich-based startupBayshore has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Lucid Capital, Booom, Heliad, and a group ofstrategic angel investors.As re…

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.
GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

GoPro warned on Monday that there is “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The action-camera maker reported a 26% revenue decline in Q1 and expects to breach several loan covenants. Shares fell as much as 14%. …

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password
Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts over the weekend by tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting them access. The attack required no access to the victim’s email, no phishing link, and no malware. The hacker simply asked the chatbot…