The UK just signed an AI deal with ElevenLabs to make government services accessible in any language and any voice

The UK government and ElevenLabs have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how voice AI can improve public services, deepen safety research, and build AI talent in the UK. The MoU, signed [...]

Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough" — on the nature of disruption

The Facebook co-founder has long run his company with a philosophy that promotes speed in innovation [...]

Every World Cup fan deserves a seat. Norton Neo says its free browser is the ticket

Presented by Norton For 39 days this summer, the planet will be doing roughly the same thing at the same time. The 2026 World Cup spans 104 matches across 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and M [...]

The tokenmaxxing hangover

Companies raced to burn AI tokens, rewarding employees for usage and treating consumption as a badge of innovation, and then the bills arrived [...]

AI is about to replace the interface. Business leaders aren’t ready

Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead [...]

Google's DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a [...]

Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was le [...]

The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.

A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to outline the plan to Parliament on Monday, ahead of the 18 June Makerfiel [...]

Brain experts tell the UK government there's 'very little' scientific evidence that phones are harming kids — but a social media ban is going ahead anyway

A few words from the academics speaking at the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee in the House of Parliament. [...]