Bricks.sh secures €1.6M pre-seed to expand AI-native internal tools

AI-nativeinternal tool builder Bricks.sh has raised €1.6 million in a pre-seed fundinground led by Primo Capital, with participation from Octopus First Cheque Fund,Eden Ventures, Vesper Holding, and V…

Apple bet its AI future on Gemini. Here’s how it can reimagine the iPhone for you

Google’s Gemini, in a pristine state, will power Siri and the broad Apple Intelligence stack. The foundations are ready, but the execution could be better than expected.
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Meta sets up ‘Meta Compute’ organization for gigawatt-scale AI data centers — initiative is said to consume hundreds of gigawatts over time

Meta establishes ‘Meta Compute’ organization to manage buildout of next-generation data centers and development of custom computing architectures that will power gigawatt-class data centers.

Grok targeted in UK law over sexually-explicit AI image generation — UK will begin prosecuting illegal prompting this week

The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region’s communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok, investigating the…

Jensen Huang claims that ‘god AI’ is a myth — Nvidia chief says ‘doomer narrative’ is ‘extremely hurtful’

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are “extremely hurtful,” and that science fiction speculation isn’t connected to reality.

AI Skills
AI Skills

For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been discussed almost exclusively in terms of models. Bigger models, faster models, smarter models. More recently, the focus shifted to agents, systems capable of planning, reasoning, and acting auton…

CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic
CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to go to CES kind of at the last minute. Over the holiday break, contacts from China kept messaging me about their travel plans. After the umpteenth “See you in…

Basecamp Research unveils programmable gene insertion AI models, as confirms Nvidia investment

A UK startup aiming to solve key challenges in life sciences through AI has unveiled the “world’s first AI models for programmable gene insertion”, as it confirms Nvidia has invested in the startup. L…

French startup Harmattan AI hits unicorn status, as it strikes deal with French aerospace group

French autonomous defence systems startup Harmattan AI says it has hit a $1.4bn valuation, after raising $200m, in a funding round led by French aerospace group Dassault Aviation, which has inked a st…

Hyperscale AI data centers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed with racks of computers are springing up to fuel the AI race. These engineering marvels are a new species of infrastructure: supercomputers designed to train and run large language models at mind-­bending scale, complete with their own specialized chips, cooling systems, and even energy…