Of all the startups that have come and gone, the personal finance company Klarna might be one of the best bellwethers for the finance industry overall. Specializing in “buy now pay later” microloans — tiny cash advances for purchases that don’t need to go through a bank — Klarna hit app stores at a time

Crime rates in the United States, as a matter of statistical fact, have fallen drastically over the past 30 years — but at the same time, due to a mix of sensational news reporting and irresponsible political rhetoric, the average American mistakenly believes they’re increasing. And now, barreling into that reality is a 38-year-old tech

For a while now, we’ve been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code — by making

The EU has a chance to shape how the world approaches AI and data governance. AI News spoke with Resham Kotecha, Global Head of Policy at the Open Data Institute (ODI), who said that opportunity lies in proving that protecting people’s rights and supporting innovation can go hand in hand. The ODI’s European Data and

The promise of AI remains immense – but one thing might be holding it back. “The infrastructure that powers AI today won’t sustain tomorrow’s demands,” a recent CIO.com article leads. “CIOs must rethink how to scale smarter – not just bigger – or risk falling behind.” CrateDB agrees – and the database firm is betting

A group of Swiss institutions has released a new open AI model, designed to serve as a foundation for future research and applications. Built by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the model is called Apertus – Latin for “open.” The name reflects its core principle: every part of its design

Today, Midoo AI proudly announces the launch of the world’s first AI language learning agent, a groundbreaking innovation set to transform language education forever. For decades, language learning has pursued one ultimate goal: true personalization. Traditional tools offered smart recommendations, gamified challenges, and pre-written role-play scripts—but real personalization remained out of reach. Midoo AI changes that. Here is

Startups Acumino, CAMB.AI, and GreenMatterAI, bring AI innovation to market Collaborations stem from DXC’s partnership with STARTUP AUTOBAHN DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider, today announced cutting-edge collaborations with Acumino, CAMB.AI, and GreenMatterAI, to develop AI solutions for the automotive and manufacturing industries. The initiatives are part of DXC’s long-standing partnership with STARTUP AUTOBAHN

LenioBio GmbH today announced a strategic partnership with AffinityAI, a Danish start-up pioneering AI-driven protein design. This collaboration combines LenioBio’s proprietary cell-free protein expression platform, ALiCE®, with AffinityAI’s advanced design engine, Designerbodies, to significantly accelerate the discovery and optimization de novo proteins. By integrating AI-guided protein design with high-throughput cell-free expression, the partnership closes the traditional “lab-in-loop” gap,

Industry veterans build a future where agentic, proactive, and trustworthy AI replaces brittle dashboards and supports overwhelmed analysts Today, Gravity, the creators of Orion, a multi-agent AI platform designed to eliminate the gap between data and action by delivering proactive, scalable intelligence across business users and customers, announced its public launch and early adoption by a dozen