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Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says

“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the […]

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OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine

“Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,” said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine […]

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Tekever hits a $6.4bn valuation and plans acquisitions with its new round

The fund raise is precisely designed to support that growth, not only organically, developing new technology, but through acquisitions. Ricardo Mendes, founder and chief executive of Tekever, said that in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. He said he expects the defence technology market to go through tremendous consolidation over the next few years. […]

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Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips

The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit €40 million […]

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Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces

France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs, Airbus said […]

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AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid. AWS has documented its compliance with D32, the NATO technical directive that defines the security requirements […]

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Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational […]

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Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m

From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi said Blackbird led a US$100m Series C that values the Melbourne company at […]

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Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than for people. It is a […]

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Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over frontier AI models, including mandatory testing before their release and the possibility of establishing a new international body to supervise them. The list is headed by Norway’s Jonas […]

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