Just a decade ago, the world’s biggest tech beast was a relative minnow. Microsoft had become notorious for disappointing product launches, stagnant innovation, and losing top talent. The firs...
https://thenextweb.com/news/how-openai-microsoft-created-ai-giant
Britain is exploring new curbs on China’s access to “sensitive technologies” following allegations of cyber espionage. Oliver Dowden, the UK’s deputy prime minister, launched a review of ...
https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-sensitive-tech-china-cyberespionage
Dutch startup Meatable has hosted the first legally approved tasting of cultivated meat in Europe. On the menu was a lab-grown pork sausage. Meatable says the produce is “indistinguishable” ...
https://thenextweb.com/news/just-like-meaty-sausages-europe-hosts-first-cultivated-meat-tasting
AI threatens to decimate the translation profession, according to a new survey by a British union. Almost four in ten translators (36%) said they’ve already lost work due to generative AI. Near...
https://thenextweb.com/news/translators-losing-work-ai-machine-translation
Under orders from the EU, tech giants have launched 11 advertising transparency tools. None of them are fit for purpose, according to a new study from Mozilla. The tools provide libraries of data...
https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-ad-transparency-tools-miss-dsa
A British drone maker plans to launch air taxis in 2026 after raising a whopping $110mn. Skyports has already flown electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on delivery and monitor...
https://thenextweb.com/news/air-taxi-firm-raises-110m-plans-to-launch-commercial-service-in-2026
German startup Bluu Seafood today launched Europe’s first pilot plant for cultivated fish. The facility in Hamburg brings lab-grown seafood a step closer to the market. Bluu had previously d...
https://thenextweb.com/news/bluu-seafood-cultivated-fish-european-plant
A space tourism company promising stratospheric balloon rides has unveiled the vehicle’s capsule design. Halo Space is building the balloon for zero-emission commercial flights to altitudes of ...
https://thenextweb.com/news/halo-space-tourism-balloon-design
A British R&D unit today unveiled a futuristic vision of “quantitative safety guarantees” for AI. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) compares the guarantees to the high safety ...
https://thenextweb.com/news/british-darpa-aria-plans-ai-safety-gatekeepers
There’s no escaping the hype around artificial general intelligence. Barely a day passes without a new headline about the concept, which envisions computer systems outperforming humans at vari...
https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-yann-lecun-ai-behind-human-intelligence