Uber taps Rivian to build robotaxis in deal worth up to $1.25B
Uber is kicking off the partnership with an initial $300 million investment, while Rivian will provide as many as 50,000 autonomous R2 SUVs.
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Inside a $1.1B deal to reshore critical minerals refining
Critical minerals startup Nth Cycle is betting that its modular approach to nickel refining can make the practice viable in the U.S. and Europe.
Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap
The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel. Defenders intercepted […]This story continues at The Next Web
eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses
The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumulated a graveyard of credible-sounding startups. The engineering problem is genuinely hard: harvesting tomatoes or cucumbers requires handling irregular, delicate, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe
Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has to navigate the legacy software, pull the right records, select the right codes, and enter them correctly. In […]This story continues at The Next Web
Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream
After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.
Elon Musk pours cold water on April 1 Tesla Roadster unveiling — but says it'll 'probably' happen later that month
Elon Musk is once again pushing back the target date for the Roadster launch. The Tesla CEO now says it'll "probably" happen ...
Is Elon Musk richer than 693 ‘poorest’ billionaires combined? Report reveals
The world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, has reached a net worth of $832.1 billion. He is three times richer than the world’s second-wealthiest, Larry Page.
Teenagers sue Elon Musk's xAI over tools used to make nonconsensual photos
Three teenagers in Tennessee have filed a class action lawsuit against xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm, ...
Elon Musk’s lawyers sidestepped SEC team in Twitter case settlement talks
Lawyer for billionaire Tesla founder told judge they attempted to resolve matter without Wall Street watchdog’s counsel ...
Influencer in custody battle with Elon Musk says MAGA women realizing they’re pawns
“It is a cult, and what you have to understand is, in any abusive relationship, right? Your access to other people, you're ...
Two Palantir veterans just came out of stealth with $30 million and a Sequoia stamp of approval
The founders are worth paying attention to.
Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates
Recruiters spend hours a day calling, leaving voicemails, and asking the same questions. Ringtime automates the whole thing, and has already found a second home in real estate. There is a well-worn frustration in blue-collar recruitment. A warehouse operative applies on Monday, hears nothing by Tuesday, and has accepted a job somewhere else by Wednesday. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI
Amsterdam-based Reson8 has raised €5M in pre-seed funding to challenge US-centric speech platforms by building a high-precision, industry-specific speech recognition platform tailored for European languages. Reson8, a hyper-customised speech AI startup that ensures real-life, accurate, industry-specific language recognition, has raised pre-seed funding to scale its infrastructure and expand its speech models across more than 20 […]This story continues at The Next Web
Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost
Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those of U.S. AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic, but at around a seventh or sixth the cost when accessed over proprietary API — and importantly, sending less than 256,000 tokens-worth of information back and forth.Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Lu
Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.
Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.
Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business
Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow
In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace, carving out a reputation for delivering frontier-level large language models (LLMs) with open source licenses and before that, high-quality AI video generation models (Hailuo). The release of MiniMax M2.7 today — a new proprietary LLM designed to perform well powering AI agents and as the backend to third-party harnesses and tools like Claude Code, Kilo Code and OpenClaw —