Surrey scientists lead new space weather mission

Enterprise giant Salesforce is looking to ride the vibe-coding wave — where developers describe what they want in natural language and AI agents write the code — withitsnew AI-powered developer tool. Salesforce announced itsnewvibe-coding offering,AgentforceVibes,on Wednesday. This newcoding toolhelps developers workautonomously on Salesforce apps and agents by handling much of the technical implementation automatically.AgentforceVibes can…

Thames Water has been given a one star rating for its poor environmental performance by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2024, as part of a scathing assessment of England’s water companies. All but one of the nine English water and sewerage companies were rated as “requiring improvement” – or worse – by the EA, in…

OpenAI co-founder Mira Murati’s two-year-old AI research lab has signed a sizable deal with semiconductor giant Nvidia. Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab announced it entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with AI semiconductor giant Nvidia on Tuesday. The size of the deal was not disclosed and includes the AI research lab deploying at least one gigawatt…

China has lifted export controls on computer chips vital to car production, the country’s commerce ministry has said. Exemptions have been granted to exports made by Chinese-owned Nexperia for civilian use, it said, which should help carmakers who had feared production in Europe would be hit. In October, the Dutch government took control of Nexperia,…

Much of Silicon Valley has spent years chasing mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals. Meanwhile, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital’s earlier days, writing smaller Series A and B checks to founders that larger firms routinely overlook. The former TaskRabbit CEO and decade-long Google veteran launched Cherryrock a year ago…