Honda R&D, the independent research arm of Honda Motor Company, has signed a multiyear joint research agreement with California-based QuantumScape to develop and manufacture solid-state battery cells. The deal, announced on June 18, makes Honda the second major automaker to formally partner with QuantumScape after Volkswagen. The agreement follows Honda’s completion of an in-depth technology […]
HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for hair salons, has raised seven million dollars in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. The device works alongside professional stylists rather than replacing them: a braider starts each braid by hand and then hands off to […]
Meta has launched smart glasses under its own brand for the first time, pricing the Adventurer and Fury models at $299 each. The glasses match the hardware specifications of the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, which starts at $359, but ship without the Ray-Ban branding and licensing premium. A third model called Starfire, designed in collaboration […]
In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not the ones a sales assistant asks. What colour best represents […]
Update: Anthropic says the incident has been identified and a fix is being implemented. The company says the issue affects Claude.ai, Claude Console, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic says it has identified a fix for elevated errors across multiple Claude models, just as the company is still explaining why it suspended access […]
Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Reflection AI, an open-source startup barely two years old. Reflection […]
The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations by describing what they want in plain language, the way they would explain a task to a colleague. […]
A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI screening software. A US federal judge has ruled that Workday must face claims its AI-powered hiring software screened out job applicants at other companies in ways that allegedly broke California […]
The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else’s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the organisation is pressing the firms behind the AI boom to disclose the carbon, water, and land their systems consume, and to switch their data centres and supply chains […]
Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in space, the idea Elon Musk has been championing, and predicted the AI race would be won by compute kept firmly on the […]
