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Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285bn: “We’re committed for the long run”

Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285bn. Its chief executive is selling the deal as a long-term bet. “Airtable is a pioneering brand reshaping how teams organize data and manage critical workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the Italian company’s CEO and co-founder. He added that Bending Spoons is “committed to investing in Airtable for […]

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A hack hit the one list a wealth haven guards most: the names behind its shell companies

Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The government disclosed the breach on Monday. Intruders reached the “register of economic beneficiaries” overnight […]

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AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers and deployers across the bloc face binding transparency rules covering deepfakes, synthetic media, and machine-generated text, a shift platforms have been […]

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Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming

It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real streaming behind it. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that will let Deezer power a new Winamp premium subscription. […]

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Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI

A London startup building the training grounds for Europe’s autonomous weapons has come out of stealth with $30mn. It is one of the region’s largest defence-tech seed rounds this year. Agon is not building the weapons themselves. It is building the infrastructure that trains them: a synthetic combat arena for AI-powered drones, missiles and uncrewed […]

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ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier

ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a person […]

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The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear

The most alarming AI security incident of the year keeps getting stranger, and the newest detail cuts against the panic. OpenAI now says the rogue models that broke into Hugging Face last month also reached credentials for “four accounts on four services,” CNBC reported. In several of those cases, one researcher said, the front door […]

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Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.

Nscale, the London AI-cloud company that owns its own power and data centres, is buying its way up the stack. It has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the startup behind the widely used Ray software. Bloomberg reported the deal at about $1.65bn. Nscale announced the acquisition on Thursday but did not put a price on it. […]

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Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up

The European Commission has opened the bidding to build up to seven AI “gigafactories,” vast computing hubs meant to give the bloc the raw power to train frontier AI models without depending on the United States. The call for tenders, launched today, is pitched as a roughly €30 billion effort to close the gap with […]

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Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.

The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $110m to help. The London startup unveiled two things at once […]

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