Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital…

RWS launches Language Weaver Pro
RWS launches Language Weaver Pro

The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones 

Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.

Spotify says AI slop is flooding your music feed, adds artist control tool

Spotify is testing a new tool that lets artists approve songs before release, as AI-generated spam and fraud expose how easily fake tracks can hijack profiles and distort payouts.

HP’s new AI workstation can expand horizontally to add 15% more internal volume — alternate side panel also includes more active cooling

HP’s Z8 Fury G6i workstation has an alternate “max” side panel that makes the internal chassis 15% larger and adds more active cooling to the system.

Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents
Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ven…

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded…

Galtea lands $3.2M to cut costly AI testing delays

Galtea, a providerof AI evaluation infrastructure, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding tofurther develop its platform for generating high-quality, use case-specifictest scenarios for generative AI…

The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year
The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year

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 …

OpenAI kills the Sora AI video app, and it likely won’t ever return

Merely six months after it launched as a standalone app, the Sora AI video generator app is riding into the sunset. The move is pretty surprising, as Google has ramped up its AI video efforts with Veo, while Chinese AI labels continue to deliver impres…