Hammersmith and Fulham council has been hit by the rebalancing of council funding (Alamy) 3 min read11 min A Labour-run London borough has ruled out joining the Conservatives in challenging the government over council funding cuts after receiving legal advice. Tory-run Wandsworth Council, alongside Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet, recently launched a formal appeal

Insider Brief Destro AI raised $8 million in seed funding co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, with participation from CoFound Partners, to expand enterprise deployments and grow its engineering and research teams. The company’s robot-agnostic platform combines MothershipOS, which coordinates tasks across robots and warehouse resources, with VisionOS, which uses AI models trained from

Target has set itself apart from big-box retailers like Walmart by offering trendy clothes, home goods from reality TV stars, and, of course, in-store Starbucks. With malls and traditional department stores in decline, Target has even become the go-to destination for stay-at-home parents who need to get out of the house (and maybe get a

When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she expected to be writing code. To her surprise, she found herself analyzing tribal history and the implications for technical innovation.  “I learned so much that I think should be required

(© David Levene/Guardian/eyevine) 13 min read1 hr Reformed Blairite, longtime director of pressure group Compass and co-founder of new Labour group Mainstream Neal Lawson talks to Sienna Rodgers about his role in Andy Burnham’s rise and the political journey that brought him to this point Neal Lawson was working for Gordon

Insider Brief Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding to expand its modular humanoid platform for developers building physical AI applications, with Gradient leading the round. The company said its wheeled bimanual robot is priced at $29,990, offers up to 10 hours of battery life, about 1 meter of reach and a software development

I always tell people that the best thing I’ve ever tested for my job here on the WIRED Reviews team is my automatic litter box from Litter-Robot. I recommend that every cat owner invest in an automatic litter box. If they can swing it, the Litter-Robot is the best option. You’ll be able to say goodbye to

The scholars explore these topics in “How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” published this month by Routledge. The authors are Duarte, a principal research scientist and associate director of the MIT Senseable City Lab; Mazzarello, a research scientist and lead of MIT Senseable City Lab global initiatives; Carlo Ratti, a professor of the

(Gary Roberts Photography / Alamy) 3 min read22 September Ed Davey has warned Liberal Democrats that they are part of a fight for the country’s future against an “extremely well-funded” modern-day “far-right”. Addressing Lib Dem conference in Brighton on Tuesday, Davey said the party faces “the fight of our lives” against a “far-right movement

Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution as enterprise networks face diminishing returns from static dashboards, pushing logistics directors towards autonomous execution. Predictive demand models display recommendations, yet human planners still clear every action. Multi-agent systems replace that approval stage across targeted operational boundaries. Instead of waiting for weekly scheduling runs, independent software