Opinion: Space startups are pivoting to defence. That’s great for innovation

A few months ago, at the SmallSat Symposium, a panel issued a sobering warning to space startups: do not chase defence dollars at the expense of long-term sustainability. Why? Because companies, parti [...]

As AI swamps music platforms, Deezer is fighting back — unlike Spotify

Songs generated by AI tools such as Suno and Udio are flooding Deezer — but the French music streaming platform is trying to fight back.  Deezer said on Wednesday that users are adding over 20,000 [...]

Box CEO Aaron Levie finds a middle ground on tech policy during Trump’s second term

The Box CEO says U.S. leadership in AI and innovation still depends on smart policy—and he’s cautiously encouraged by what he’s seen so far. [...]

The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next

The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI [...]

SXSW puts AI onstage and business models under pressure

The AI mood at SXSW has shifted from novelty to economics, with sessions narrowing in on search, the creator economy, data centers, and the grid itself [...]

TNW Conference unveils agenda to unleash the next big things in tech

For nearly two decades, TNW Conference has been a launchpad for the next big things in tech. The likes of Slack, Wise, Bolt, and Trello all made their mark on our stage before becoming global brands. [...]

Heart Aerospace’s US move shows Europe is ‘driving innovation away’

Swedish electric plane startup Heart Aerospace is relocating its headquarters from Gothenburg to Los Angeles in a move it says will “bolster product development.”  The company will lay off all of [...]

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darli [...]

Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a cheaper and faster AI image model

Microsoft today launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower-cost, higher-speed variant of its flagship text-to-image model that the company says delivers production-ready quality at nearly half the price. [...]