Obriy AI raises $500K to take multi-agent enterprise automation global

Obriy AI, a platform for building tools that optimise complex business processes using AI agents, announces the successful raising of $500,000 from N1 Investment Company, an investment firm specialisi…

Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still ‘a long way’ from AI designing chips without human input

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously.

Locai Labs and Civo launch Project Mercury to end UK reliance on foreign AI

Today, Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury. The programme aims to bu…

Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’
Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’

The photorealistic digital character is trained on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone, and his own thinking on company strategy. He is personally involved in testing it. The effort, described by four people familiar with the matter, is separate from a ‘CEO …

The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI
The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI

In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supp…

Why opinion on AI is so divided

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results and trends, is a chance to take a breath. (It’s a marathon, not a sprint, after…

Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.
Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI’s annual report card, comes out today and cuts through some of that noise. …

ElevenLabs VP warns sales candidates: 20x quota, long hours, or get out
ElevenLabs VP warns sales candidates: 20x quota, long hours, or get out

In short: Carles Reina, ElevenLabs’ head of go-to-market and one of the company’s earliest employees, has issued a candid warning to candidates considering sales roles at the $11 billion voice AI company: expect long hours, constant travel, and an annu…

OpenAI to move to first permanent London office, with capacity to more than double headcount

OpenAI says it’s moving into its first permanent London office, which has the capacity to more than double its current 200-strong headcount, days after pausing its flagship data centre project in the …

Accenture and Google Cloud unveil Brussels centre to accelerate sovereign AI adoption

Today, Accenture, in partnership with Google Cloud, is launching a new Accenture and Google Cloud Sovereign Centre in Brussels, with a dedicated training facility. The new centre comes as governmen…