Dyson Pledges New Investment Into AI, Robotics and Batteries

Dyson will invest an additional 2.75bn pound ($3.67 billion) on developing technologies and products over the next five years [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], as the appliances brand pushes deeper into areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics and energy storage. From a report: The company founded by billionaire James Dyson and famous for its vacuum cleaners said…

Company Spends $25M Building Ventilators That Are Now No Longer Needed

U.K. vacuum cleaner company Dyson “said the British government no longer needed the ventilator it had developed from scratch,” reports Reuters:
Company founder James Dyson said the company had welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s challenge to build ventilators. “Mercifully they are not required, but we don’t regret our contribution to the national effort for one moment,” he said in a statement. Dyson…