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The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company showed off a digital assistant that...
Finland taps new AI satellite to track toxic algae from space
Tech startup Kuva Space is working with the Finnish Environmental Institute (Skye) to analyse the health of the Nordic country’s waters with a specialised satellite. The pilot test will...
Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing
Let’s start with fusion: Google’s deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems is intended to provide the tech giant with 200 megawatts of power. This will come from Commonwealth’s first commercial...
Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality
Let’s start with the term “agent” itself. Right now, it’s being slapped on everything from simple scripts to sophisticated AI workflows. There’s no shared definition, which leaves plenty of...
Tesla deliveries fall 13%, biggest quarterly decline in company history, as Musk and Trump continue public feud
From Elon Musk’s controversial Washington crusade to the Cybertruck’s flop, it’s been a bad year for Tesla. Now, the EV company is reporting a 13% decline in vehicle deliveries...
UK’s Bytes Technology stock plunged over 27%. Here’s why
Shares of UK’s Bytes Technology plunged over 27% on Wednesday after the IT firm said its operating profit for the first half of fiscal 2026 would be marginally lower...
France, Spain, and 6 other countries pledge to tax premium fliers
Flying comes with a lot of carbon emissions, but not all plane seats are environmentally equal. Seats that take up more space, like business or first class, come with...
Diddy verdict: Sean Combs guilty of prostitution-related charges but cleared of more serious offenses
Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses, but cleared of more serious charges after a criminal trial in which two of the music mogul’s former...
French-Swiss software merger to mint Europe’s latest unicorn
French software firm LumApps is set to merge with Swiss counterpart Beekeeper in a deal that will create a new business valued at over $1bn. LumApps, which calls itself...
No-code platform Lovable eyes $150M raise and double unicorn status
Swedish startup Lovable is in talks to raise $150mn at a valuation just shy of $2bn, the Financial Times reports. The Stockholm-based business has built a generative AI platform...
