Team Techopia
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Coding agents move into the team channel
Slack Code moves AI coding agents from private developer sessions into shared channels where colleagues can inspect changes, test previews, intervene, and approve work before deployment.
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A billion Gemma downloads reshape open AI
Google says its Gemma open-model family has passed one billion downloads, showing how AI competition increasingly depends on developer distribution, tooling, fine-tuning, and deployment flexibility.
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AI productivity may push inflation higher first
New research challenges the assumption that AI-driven productivity will automatically suppress inflation, showing how investment and spending can rise before additional productive capacity arrives.
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UK age checks expose an enforcement gap
Britain’s online age checks are reducing traffic to compliant adult sites, but Ofcom’s own evidence shows some users moving towards services that have not introduced equivalent controls.
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The $100m bet on heterogeneous AI
London-based Callosum has raised $100m to build software that routes AI work across different models and processor architectures according to cost, latency, energy use, and performance.
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UK tests the cost of AI dependence
Whitehall is assessing the economic and security consequences of losing access to frontier AI models after a US export-control episode demonstrated how foreign policy can interrupt advanced software capability.
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Zagreb robotaxis enter Uber’s mainstream app
Uber users in Zagreb can now be matched with Pony.ai autonomous vehicles operated by Verne, putting an existing Croatian robotaxi deployment into a mainstream European ride-hailing marketplace.
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Spain’s AI gigafactory consortium clears Brussels
Brussels has cleared a Spanish data-centre venture involving ACS, Telefónica, Santander, and state-backed SETT as public and private capital assemble around Europe’s planned AI gigafactories.
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Cyber insurance moves closer to defence
Munich Re is buying At-Bay for $575m, bringing insurance, continuous security monitoring, threat data, and claims closer together as cyber underwriting becomes a more active risk-management business.
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Optical chips target AI’s networking bottleneck
Swedish photonics startup Solinide has raised €4m to commercialise silicon nitride technology designed to move more data between AI processors without multiplying lasers, hardware, and electricity demand.
