The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its hum…
Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday eve…
Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia’s 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.
The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock d…
For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday…
Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sa…
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The International Energy Agency estimates they could account fo…
Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can …
Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented what it calls the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard. The res…
Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter. Crusoe did not respond to a request for co…