Team Techopia
-
Huawei and Qualcomm put patents above geopolitics
Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed broad cross licensing across 5G, computing, AI and networking, while Qualcomm will acquire selected Huawei US patents, showing how technology rivals remain commercially connected through intellectual property.
-
AI bug reports overwhelm Google’s open source bounty
Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability submissions through its open source bug bounty programme after automated reports rose sharply and the vast majority proved invalid, exposing a new bottleneck in AI assisted security research.
-
Cohere turns AI cost control into an admin function
Cohere’s North 2 platform adds multi-step agent orchestration, reusable skills, persistent memory and granular limits on model consumption, treating cost and autonomy as administrative controls rather than problems left to individual AI projects.
-
Innovate UK puts £3.1m behind frontier AI scale-up
Innovate UK has opened a £3.1 million competition for UK SMEs developing frontier AI and machine learning technologies, focusing public funding on feasibility work with a credible route to commercially defensible scale.
-
Living Optics brings more information into the camera
Oxford spinout Living Optics has raised $20 million from financial and strategic investors to scale computational hyperspectral cameras that capture information beyond conventional colour imaging.
-
The Met puts £350m behind its application backbone
The Metropolitan Police has awarded Atos a six year application services contract worth up to £350 million, extending a long standing relationship around the software and service infrastructure supporting policing in London.
-
TalkTalk collapse risk turns a telecoms merger into a public interest case
BT has acquired TalkTalk and PlatformX out of administration, prompting an unusual government intervention that places continuity of broadband, emergency services and vulnerable customers alongside conventional competition scrutiny.
-
Meloni tests trademark law against AI voice cloning
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to register a recording of her voice as an EU trademark, testing whether existing intellectual property law can provide another remedy against AI impersonation.
-
AI coding pushes the bottleneck into developer infrastructure
Namespace has raised $42 million seven months after its previous funding as faster AI coding increases pressure on the computing infrastructure used to build, test and validate growing volumes of software changes.
-
Fleuret puts AI agents on the offensive side of cyber security
Paris startup Fleuret has raised €4 million to automate penetration testing with AI agents that discover systems, identify weaknesses, attempt exploitation and retest fixes as infrastructure changes.
