20VC leads $20m Series A investment in onboarding startup Prelude

French digital onboarding startup Prelude has raised $20m in a Series A funding round led by Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, which is investing in the startup for the first time. Other investors in the round i…

Google wants Gemini to help build the next big scientific breakthrough

Google’s Gemini for Science pushes AI beyond research summaries, with experimental tools for hypotheses, computational testing, and literature review. The bigger question is whether it can earn trust inside real labs.

Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?
Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?

Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas, deliver packages and food to our doorsteps, and e…

Irish Better Futures raises €600K for AI-driven engineering documentation automation

Dublin-basedAI startup Better Futures has secured €600,000 in funding from private angelinvestors and Enterprise Ireland through its High Potential Start-Up (HPSU)programme, bringing the company’s tot…

Pizza Hut’s AI delivery system cooks up $100 million franchisee lawsuit — deliveries allegedly shot from under 30 minutes to over 45 under new system

Pizza Hut’s AI delivery system allegedly cost one franchisee $100 million in lost business, resulting in a spicy lawsuit to recover the lost dough.

OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment
OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the Un…

Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived thr…

Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams

The Warsaw- and Munich-based ex-Meta engineering team hit $15m annualised recurring revenue in ten weeks. The angel list reads like a who’s who of European and US software. Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-agent company built by former Meta engi…

Overwatch AI secures $1.5M to streamline airline operations

Overwatch AI, an aviation operationsplatform for pilots and airline crews, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seedfunding in a round backed by United Airlines Ventures, Baobab Ventures, Pegasus Innovation…

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at th…