Martin Scorsese has officially joined the AI camp and it’s not what anyone expected

Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI startup Black Forest Labs, using its technology for storyboarding on a new film.

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. T…

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A l…

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline f…

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud
Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and which need the power of data centre hardware. CEO Aravin…

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents
Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a lightweight operating system built on AOSP, enterprise…

OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers

OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotat…

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission
The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to t…

Archestra.AI raises $10M to unlock next-gen agentic use case

A startup whose tech allows enterprises to connect sensitive data to AI agents has raised $10m in a seed funding round, led by Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, a new investor in the startup.The funding round in…