Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses
The Veldhoven company plans to use the money to boost production of machines that make waveguides for AI glasses and augmented reality headsets. Previous investors 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, and BOM increased…
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OpenAI faces lawsuit from British Columbia over Tumbler Ridge shooting
The Canadian province of British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company's failure to notify authorities about the Tumbler Ridge shooter's conversations with its chatbot. According to the and , the…
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Ask ChatGPT ‘What are you unsure about?’ — it’s the simplest trick I’ve found for getting better responses
But one useful way to avoid those pitfalls is simply to follow up your question with another that forces ChatGPT to consider its blind spots and blithe self-assurance, however artificial it might be. Simply inquiring…
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Meta Challenges Online Safety Categorisation, In Latest Pushback
The Upper Tribunal served Ofcom with papers last week for Meta’s appeal of the categorisation that subjects Meta’s WhatsApp and Instagram to additional regulatory duties, such as protecting users from fraudulent ads and…
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GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Bracken, who founded the Government Digital Service (GDS) and served as the UK's first Government Chief Data Officer, says governments and other institutions are gradually giving up control over critical systems as they…
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Jet2 signs multi-year deal with Adobe to personalise holidays with agentic AI
Jet2 will run Adobe CX Enterprise, the agentic platform Adobe introduced in April, with its CX Enterprise Coworker tool at the center. Coworker coordinates AI agents that help Jet2 staff produce personalized, on-brand…
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Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189M and it is now the latest unicorn in Europe
The company states that this funding round has made it the most recent unicorn in Europe; Verda is now worth at least $1 billion, although it has not provided an exact figure. MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, the…
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Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Bot From Consumer Platform
The company said it began blocking Muse on Sunday. The site now displays a warning message saying use by an “unauthorized AI agent” violates its terms of use with customers. Amazon said it believes agents should “operate…
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‘We don’t want what’s happening in the US to happen here’: Australia’s smart glasses ban extends to even more public areas
The City of Sydney, whose jurisdiction covers a population of approximately 240,000 within Sydney’s central business district and surrounding inner suburbs, is the latest local government council to enforce the ban…
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Palantir, Goldman Sachs and One Peak alumni raise €5M pre-seed round to build a tech-native audit firm
Benford has decided to skip the middleman and become the auditor. Today, the Oslo- and London-based company Benford announced it has raised €5 million in pre-seed funding to build a tech-focused financial audit firm. The…
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