Berlin’s reverse.fashion bags seven-figure funding to scale textile sorting

Berlin-based reverse.fashion, a startup developingAI-powered textile sorting technology, has secured a seven-figure extension toits pre-seed funding round from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).Founded in…

Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan
Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan

Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scotti…

South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe
South Korea’s FuriosaAI brings its Nvidia-challenger chips to Europe

A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is insta…

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone

Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool launched as a desktop app in January and, from Tuesday, is rolling out in beta to Max subscribers first. The pitch is continuity ac…

Meta debuts Muse Image, its first AI image model built under Alexandr Wang’s lab
Meta debuts Muse Image, its first AI image model built under Alexandr Wang’s lab

Meta launched Muse Image on Tuesday, its first image-generation AI model built under the Superintelligence Labs division led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. The model is rolling out inside the Meta AI chatbot and will be embedded across Instagram an…

Waymo’s robotaxis stalled, snarled traffic, and drove into fireworks on July 4
Waymo’s robotaxis stalled, snarled traffic, and drove into fireworks on July 4

Waymo’s robotaxis had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, snarled traffic for hours, and one drove over a lit firework and caught fire. Over the holiday weekend, driverless Waymo cars became the story instead of the technol…

Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps
Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps

Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house MAI models where cost or data residency favours them. The change is increment…

SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash
SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash

SpaceX just joined the Nasdaq 100. On the same day, one Wall Street analyst put a $10.5 trillion price tag on it. A famed investor put the odds of a crash at 90 per cent. SpaceX has plenty of admirers on Wall Street. None goes further than Raymond Jame…

Hud CEO Roee Adler says runtime intelligence will define the next era of software operations
Hud CEO Roee Adler says runtime intelligence will define the next era of software operations

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, with coding agents now capable of producing large volumes of production-ready code in minutes. Yet while writing software has become faster, ensuring that software behaves corre…

Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law
Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law

Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg fi…