ETH Zürich spin-out ZuriQ has raised a $25.5M seed round to scale trapped-ion quantum processors built on a natively two-dimensional architecture.

Up to 80% of accelerators leave startups worse off, an NYU study finds. The programs that work teach product-market fit as a discipline, not a buzzword.

Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads ...

Amodei published Anthropic's formal position on open weights. He opposes bans but wants chip export controls, distillation crackdowns, and mandatory safety testing.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250bn backstop for OpenAI's 10GW Ohio campus, plus $350bn in chip financing. Critics call the structure circular.

Altman said he got "addicted" to TikTok while researching it for Sora. He scrolled for 3 hours one Saturday. OpenAI shut down Sora in March because it consumed too much compute.

Cisco researchers bypassed AI safety filters on major chatbots within five turns to elicit biological weapon information. No model was fully resistant. CDC was also blocked.

Peacock Premium ($11/month) will be bundled free with YouTube Premium from early 2027. The deal extends YouTube TV distribution and adds live sports to YouTube.

Nadella won't call it a bubble, but says AI must lift GDP or the movie ends badly. Meanwhile Copilot gets chips before Azure customers.

Fujifilm is hiking prices on five cameras from September 1 due to DRAM costs. The X100 VI goes up €200. The GFX100 II climbs €500. Canon, Sony, Nikon expected to follow.

Meta is rolling out Meta AI DMs to all Threads users globally. You can share posts and images with it. But you still cannot block Meta AI's posts in the public feed.

Angola sold a 15% stake in Unitel for about $321m, its largest IPO ever. The shares trace back to a 2022 seizure from Isabel dos Santos.