Tech and Software
Tech giant Meta (formerly Facebook) has committed to one of the most aggressive moves in the history of artificial intelligence. It has offered $32 billion for the startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI. SSI is only a year old, but thanks to its founder and its focus on so-called saf...
German startup DeepL has announced a major leap forward: thanks to the deployment of the latest Nvidia DGX SuperPOD system, it can now translate the entire internet in just 18 days. Not long ago, the same task would have taken 194 days. DeepL, which develops its own AI models for translation and competes with giants like Google Translate, is ...
A milestone has taken place in China that could change the future of the construction industry. A 158-kilometre stretch of highway between Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau has been completely rebuilt - without a single human worker. The entire process was handled by fully autonomous machines. AI-controlled drones, self-driving finishers and robot...
Electric vehicles are gradually conquering the roads, and a similar transformation awaits the airspace. The aviation industry is rapidly approaching electrification, as this year's Paris Air Show 2025 clearly confirmed. The world's largest aerospace trade fair welcomed a record number of exhibitors last week, including those from the Czech Re...
More and more young people in China and Taiwan are addressing their mental health problems through artificial intelligence. As The Guardian reports, instead of seeing a psychotherapist, they are choosing to talk to a chatbot, which they find less stressful and easier than talking to a real person. However, experts warn that AI does not yet offer...
Terry Davis, a gifted programmer with a serious mental illness, created a completely unique operating system called TempleOS, which he programmed himself in his own language called HolyC - a combination of C and C++. His work gained the attention of the technology community and gradually built a small but loyal online fan base around it. Davi...
A team of engineers at Duke University is working on a breakthrough that could reshape the way we interact with robotics. Their new system, called Text2Robot, allows users to create fully functional robot prototypes simply by describing them in everyday language—no programming or engineering expertise required. Imagine typing: “I want a six-leg...
Czech fintech startup Flowpay has scored a significant success. The London-based investment company Fasanara Capital will provide it with an injection of EUR 30 million (approximately CZK 755 million). The startup specialises in lending to smaller companies that often would not have a chance of getting funding from traditional banks. A new ap...
At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, visitors were impressed by one of the most daring technological achievements - the first biological computer CL1 from Australian company Cortical Labs. At first glance, it looked more like a laboratory device, but at its core are living human neurons created from stem cells. And this is no fu...
