The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful materials humanity has ever made. […]This story continues at The Next Web
The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna […]This story continues at The Next Web
The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When OpenAI moved its operational activities into a for-profit […]This story continues at The Next Web
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is sharing a login credential through Slack, a sticky note, or a spreadsheet named “passwords_final_v3.” You know it. They know it. And eventually, an attacker will know it too. This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at […]This story continues at The Next Web
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Brinc launched its newest 911 response drone this week, as the company seeks to expand its prominence in the public safety industry.
The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.
The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.
The dollar amount isn’t as important as the fact that this is the first jury verdict of its kind against Meta over harm to young people.
Startup Epoch Biodesign uses enzymes to break plastic waste down into monomers, the chemical building blocks that can be used to make new plastic.
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.
The six startups were selected from over 2,000 applications and will receive $500,000 to $2 million each.
A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.
OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video generation pipelines.The announcement came abruptly this afternoon with OpenAI posting a message on X and not giving an exact shutdown date for the services, instead promising "timelines for the app and API and details on preserving y
Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.
The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into fields, and navigating software on the user's behalf while they step away from their desk.The update, available immediately as a research preview for paying subscribers, transforms Claude from a conversational assistant into something closer to a remote digital operator. It arrives inside