How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba.  The real ambition for many of these researchers was the robot of science fiction—one…

Sovereign AI moving at speed “Craig David would blush at”

The chairman of the new £500m UK government-backed VC fund backing domestic AI startups last night channelled his inner Craig David to indicate the speed of its investing, rebuffing criticism that it …

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a specialised AI model for drug discovery and life sciences research
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a specialised AI model for drug discovery and life sciences research

Named after the crystallographer who helped reveal the structure of DNA, GPT-Rosalind is OpenAI’s first domain-specific model series, fine-tuned for biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering. Access is restricted to a trusted-access programme for…

Cosine goes from benchmark leader to cornerstone of UK sovereign AI strategy

The UK government has selected Cosine, the British AI company whose models have outperformed OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepSeek on independent coding benchmarks for two consecutive years, as one…

How Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski built a global tech career and is now shaping AI strategy for enterprises
How Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski built a global tech career and is now shaping AI strategy for enterprises

Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski’s career spans multiple continents and leadership roles, yet her current focus reflects a consistent theme: understanding how technology translates into business outcomes. As founder and CEO of EverCognitive, she brings …

Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own
Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own

In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh generation, and self-correcting loops that test and …

Google gives Gemini image generation that knows your life
Google gives Gemini image generation that knows your life

In short: Google has added Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature, letting the AI create images informed by a user’s Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Drive, and other Google app data. The feature rolls out to Plus, Pro, …

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and …

Solidroad scores $25M Series A to turn customer conversations into actionable data

Solidroad, an AI platform that helps companies evaluate and improve every human and AI customer conversation, today announced a $25 million Series A round led by Hedosophia.. Solidroad strengthens cus…