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Scaling Founders UK urges focus on founder quality

Initiative is focused on measuring and developing founder capability is essential to stronger startup outcomes.

Fabrique partners with Gensmo for AI styling

No more anxiety-inducing changing room quick changes

FINNY raises $17 million in Series A

The investment will help expand engineering, product and go-to-market teams

Bybit broadens global footprint with UK platform launch

Its exchange will be available to UK users with spot and P2P services.

Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud expand AI security partnership

The two companies said the expanded collaboration is focused on embedding security across cloud infrastructure

Microsoft researcher says AI is learning the language of biology

Computation is helping scientists make sense of biological complexity at a scale humans cannot manage alone

Google sets out its vision for AI in the classroom

The search giant published a collection of six articles on AI and education

Meta data centre nets $875m in Louisiana contracts

Local firms, workers and infrastructure see early gains from Meta’s Louisiana build

MCP-Atlas open-sourced

Even the smartest AI still trips over the toolbox

Meta’s 2025: a year of AI assistants, power-hungry data centres and smart glasses

From AI assistants to smart glasses, the Facebook owner's year has been busy

How refugees helped Microsoft use AI to map one of the world’s largest camps

The project is a reminder that AI for humanitarian use is not just about clever algorithms

Why governments want AI agents that act like trusted teammates, not chatbots

Put simply, the argument is that if AI agents are going to be trusted with real responsibilities, they need the same operational discipline as human teams

TIME crowns the power players behind AI’s breakout year

What the magazine is really saying with this choice is that AI’s rise is no longer hypothetical

Canva CCO outlines four 2025 business trends

Four trends (AI maturity, scalable brand systems, visual communication and fast content) defined 2025.

Faraday Future rolls first FX Super One off line

The first FX Super One pre-production vehicle has rolled off the line at Faraday Future’s Hanford, California, FF AI-Factory.

Tencent Cloud launches EdgeOne Pages official version

EdgeOne Pages is an edge-native full-stack development platform

Etherlink activates Farfadet upgrade after strong 2025 growth

Taken together, the Farfadet upgrade and the growth figures underline Etherlink’s push to position itself as a high-throughput, low-cost EVM environment within the Tezos ecosystem, as competition intensifies among networks targeting DeFi and on-chain gaming developers

Vertical Aerospace doubles flight test capacity

The UK start-up has completed its third full-scale prototype and will begin piloted flight testing after commissioning in January.

SHEIN opens European logistics hub in Wrocław

The online retailer opened a new e-commerce logistics centre in Wrocław, Poland, to serve its European operations.

Copilot introduces holiday mode

Satya Nadella posted a conversation with colleague Lucas Fitzpatrick about a festive Copilot feature.