Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access
Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system a…

Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human

Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “…

Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities

Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with ni…

Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership
Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership

In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva’s Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canv…

ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant
ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant

The Eindhoven neurotechnology company is using the proceeds to fund its Empower BP pivotal trial, which tests whether its implantable ARC-IM® system can treat blood pressure instability after spinal cord injury, while expanding commercial rollout of it…

EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers
EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers

Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus (with S3NS, a Thales – Google Cloud joint venture, plus Clarence and Mistral) have won the European Commission’s six-year sovereign cloud framework contract. The Proximus con…

AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology
AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology

AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in …

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…

Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible
Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible

The European Investment Bank is lending €20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technolo…

GIC-backed battery maker Envision AESC is considering a $2 billion Hong Kong IPO
GIC-backed battery maker Envision AESC is considering a $2 billion Hong Kong IPO

The Japan-headquartered EV battery manufacturer, controlled by China’s Envision Group and backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, is mulling an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise up to $2 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The move marks …