German tax software startup mika raises €6 million
Berlin-based mika has raised €6 million in seed funding to expand its accounting and tax platform for small German limited companies. Smedvig Ventures led the round, with participation from Wecken & Cie., individual investors and ...
DNA computer performs calculations without continuous power
Researchers at Maynooth University demonstrated a DNA computer that completes calculations without a continuous electricity supply, New Atlas reported. Short DNA segments combine with a larger DNA scaffold in warm saline solution....
UniK preprint reports stronger retrieval results with a 70-billion-parameter model
Researchers report that UniK, a system that organizes and retrieves information from different kinds of data, helped an open-source 70-billion-parameter model achieve 76% accuracy on a government-data question-answering test, comp...
Experimental AI system improves identification of drugs in emergency poisoning cases
Researchers report that DeToxR, an AI system designed to identify multiple substances involved in emergency poisonings, outperformed an unadapted language model and supervised baselines. It combines accounts from paramedics and pa...
Global AI glasses shipments rose 263% year over year in first half of 2026
Global shipments of AI glasses rose 263% year over year in the first half of 2026, Counterpoint Research reports. Its count includes glasses without displays as well as augmented reality and AI glasses. Counterpoint attributes th...
ByteDance made up nearly 75% of Nscale's 2025 sales, FT reports
ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used its Norwegian facility to access Nvidia AI chips, the Financial Times reported, citing sources and Nscale's US securities filings. ByteDance was the AI cloud p...