Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills, Congress wants Big Tech to pick up more […]
Deezer has launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs directly inside the app using in-app tools rather than artificial intelligence. The feature requires the explicit consent of the original artists and rights holders, and Deezer says artists get paid for every stream of the remixed tracks. The tool is available on select […]
Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments again, to 50,000 this year. The bank says the machines are moving from stage demos to real factories, shops and restaurants. China’s robots are leaving the showroom and reaching the shop floor. Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments for […]
Riviera Partners, the Insight Partners-backed executive search firm that has placed technology leaders at companies including Uber, Snowflake, Figma, and Discord, is acquiring Lateral Labs, a recruiting firm that specialises in hiring for AI startups. The deal brings Lateral Labs’ client roster, which includes Cursor, ElevenLabs, Runway, Scale AI, and Luma Labs, under the umbrella […]
Hyundai workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorise a strike, and for the first time robots are part of the fight. A Hyundai robot strike would test who controls the factory floor as humanoid machines arrive. South Korea’s largest carmaker is heading for a clash over robots. Hyundai’s union has voted to authorise a strike, partly […]
By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer’s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s […]
Figma used the opening keynote of its Config 2026 conference on Wednesday to unveil code layers, a feature that brings executable code directly onto the collaborative design canvas. Teams can now clone repositories and extract flows from code into design layers for testing, collapsing a handoff step that has defined the design-to-development workflow for over […]
Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is not a chatbot. The French company on 23 […]
