Gemini, ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots think alike, and it’s bad for human creativity

AI chatbots may feel creative on their own, but new research shows they often converge on the same ideas, raising concerns that relying on them could quietly narrow human creativity.

With $8M, Eunice brings institutional-grade AI to due diligence

Eunice,a London-based company building due diligence infrastructure for regulatedmarkets, has raised $8 million in a combined seed and pre-seed funding roundled by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest, w…

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context
Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles an itinerary and executes the purchase. That shift, from assistance to execution, is what makes agentic AI…

Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital…

RWS launches Language Weaver Pro
RWS launches Language Weaver Pro

The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones 

Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.

Spotify says AI slop is flooding your music feed, adds artist control tool

Spotify is testing a new tool that lets artists approve songs before release, as AI-generated spam and fraud expose how easily fake tracks can hijack profiles and distort payouts.

HP’s new AI workstation can expand horizontally to add 15% more internal volume — alternate side panel also includes more active cooling

HP’s Z8 Fury G6i workstation has an alternate “max” side panel that makes the internal chassis 15% larger and adds more active cooling to the system.

Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents
Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ven…

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded…