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Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Nav
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
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TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought
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Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and an interna
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis
Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe
Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause
All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
