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Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
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Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
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Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
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FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live
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Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
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Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
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A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build
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Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
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Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes
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While tech week talks AI, Scytale is talking about what’s actually killing deals
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Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation
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Broadcom steps back from M&A as AI revenue surges
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Trump officials fear a loophole let Chinese firms buy Nvidia Blackwells
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US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies
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The 10 best ecommerce mobile app builders for mid-market and enterprise brands
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South Korea’s labour minister wants tech firms to share AI windfalls
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang flags robotics as Korea’s next growth engine
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Anthropic urges a coordinated, verifiable pause for frontier AI
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Upwind, the next-gen wiz, now secures every corner of the AI stack
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Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety
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Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation
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Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did
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A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it
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Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital
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Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time
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A mile-long nuclear-powered ship for 80,000 people has been “about to break ground” for three decades
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Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame
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UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking
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Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO
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Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic
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EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe
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Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do
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Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker
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Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US
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The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners
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Synthesia partners with Cinder to scale moderation before a frame renders
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Amazon’s new Proteus robot takes plain-language orders, headed to Europe in 2027
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Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised
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Quantinuum prices its IPO at $1.68bn, setting a new bar for quantum
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SoftBank’s PayPay pushes into insurance with a 70.2% T&D Life stake
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Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding
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KPMG puts Claude in front of all 276,000 staff in an Anthropic alliance
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Merantix Capital closes a €103m fund to back early-stage European AI
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Cerebras says it will work with everyone in AI hardware except NVIDIA
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SpaceX wins Texas county approval for Terafab reinvestment zone
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Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund
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Uber’s bet on Nuro is bigger than it let on, at close to $500m
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Sam Altman tells Congress to fund AI testing, not to require model approvals
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A UK MP’s lawsuit could decide whether xAI answers for what Grok makes
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Meta accuses Australia of breaching trade pact over news bargaining tax
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Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building
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Foxconn and Intel join SambaNova to build rackscale AI infrastructure
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Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about
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Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history
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Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
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A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month
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Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside
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Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back
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One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories
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Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print
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The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid
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Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot
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EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud
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Tata licenses a Chinese EV platform to rescue its stalled premium push
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AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away
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Suno raises at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in six months
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Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers
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Apple agrees to hand India the financials it spent months trying to withhold
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EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
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SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing
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Factorial raises $150M at a $2.5bn valuation, with General Catalyst betting twice
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Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves
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Applied Aerospace & Defense raises $650M in an IPO the market wanted ten times over
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DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn
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France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip
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Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised
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Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market
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Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry
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UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
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GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring
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Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
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Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions
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RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams
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The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
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Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
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Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud
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Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents
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Hackers brute-forced Dashlane’s two-factor authentication and downloaded encrypted password vaults
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OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers
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A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy
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The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission
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SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit
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Amazon’s Ring is sued over its Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature
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Taiwan shows off robot patrol dogs that could guard its South China Sea islands
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The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI
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Meta takes its 13+ teen content settings global across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger
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Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika
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Marvell jumps after Jensen Huang calls it the next trillion-dollar company
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Microsoft heads into Build with AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem
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WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid
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SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back an $800m Agile Robots round
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Uber picks Munich for its next robotaxi push, with Autobrains and Nvidia
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Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’
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SEALSQ takes majority of WeCan to build a post-quantum AI compliance co-pilot for private banks
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ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit
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Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts
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Mach Industries quadruples to $1.8bn as the Pentagon’s drone-dominance push lifts every defence-tech valuation
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Amazon moves Prime Day back to June and keeps it a four-day event
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STMicroelectronics doubles its data-centre revenue forecast to $1bn
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Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending
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GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.
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Apple is building a bill-splitting feature that photographs receipts and assigns items to friends
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Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password
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IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse
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A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it
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Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI
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A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts
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Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem
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The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself
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Anthropic’s IPO filing means Salesforce’s early AI bet is about to become its most profitable investment
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Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation
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Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product
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A strike at one Michigan axle plant could choke production of GM’s most profitable vehicles
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Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI
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QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing
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Salesforce is acquiring Contentful to give Agentforce a content layer that can assemble experiences on the fly
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AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed
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Akeso’s lung cancer drug reduces death risk by 34%, marking the first Chinese drug at ASCO’s top stage in 61 years
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US export controls are pushing China’s AI chip industry away from GPUs and toward custom silicon
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AI eclipsed nuclear weapons as the dominant threat at Asia’s premier defense summit
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LG Electronics has quadrupled this year. The catalyst: a meeting with Jensen Huang about physical AI.
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Jensen Huang opens Computex with Vera Rubin in production and a move into Windows PCs
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Nadella quietly dismantled Microsoft’s leadership structure. The SLT that ran the company for decades is gone.
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Nvidia looks beyond China’s Unitree for its humanoid robot push
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PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m
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Vertice buys Vendr to build what it calls the largest procurement dataset
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Runway picks London for its European headquarters with a $200m UK pledge
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NVIDIA names Anthropic and OpenAI among first users of its Vera chip
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Two days to go: TNW’s Amsterdam gathering on what it takes to win in AI-native SaaS
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MiniMax eyes a Shanghai listing after a 400% run in Hong Kong
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Meta’s employee mouse-click tracking tool is collecting EU data it said it would not collect
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ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t
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China formalises tougher outbound-investment rules after the Meta-Manus blockade
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US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad
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SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company on the AI rally
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Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory
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Revolut, Mistral and Wayve founders back Balderton’s ‘Built in Europe’ push
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China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI
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Apple destroyed the mid-tier watch market. Now it’s coming for the $200 billion eyewear industry.
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Tesla has 42 robotaxis in Texas. Waymo has 577. The gap is now public record.
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LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs
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The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it
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DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google killed the blue links. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70%.
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20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.
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A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.
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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.
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Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.
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Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial
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Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.
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A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.
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Your power bank is probably overheating. But don’t worry, TORRAS fixed that.
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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
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Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.
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HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable
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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.
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Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI
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Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.
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SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.
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Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.
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Ferrari’s CEO says the Luce deserves “respect.” Its former chairman says it deserves a different logo.
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AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.
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ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets
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CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire
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Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta
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Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G
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Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha
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Australia’s workplace tribunal says AI-assisted claims have helped drive a 70% workload increase in three years
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An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name
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A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
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Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations
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Picogrid raises $45M to become the neutral integration layer for modern defence
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OpenAI gives Japan’s megabanks its newest model for cyber defence
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Fonoa raises $110M and buys PwC’s tax software to build a real-time compliance platform
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Bank of Italy says it is talking to the world’s big AI firms
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Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward
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Dell rallies on Nvidia-powered AI server demand as it lifts its forecast
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Norway’s $2.3tn fund backs a human-rights review at Palantir
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Ex-Sequoia China firm HSG said to lead bidding for Leica Camera stake
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Apollo and Blackstone shop a $36bn debt deal to buy Anthropic its chips
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How to stop holding AI agents back
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SpaceX has cut its IPO valuation target to $1.8 trillion as marketing begins next week
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EU-Nough tech rules? Founders, policymakers, and operators meet in Amsterdam to discuss Europeʼs scaling reality
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Nvidia has spent $6.5 billion in three months to replace copper with light inside AI data centres
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Asana buys no-code agent builder Stack AI as it tries to become the operating system for human-agent teams
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, destroying its only pad and threatening Amazon’s satellite deadline
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BYD has built China’s first 4nm driving chip, and it’s putting LiDAR on a $10,000 car
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is its most honest AI model yet, and Mythos is coming in weeks
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Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi is cheaper to build, harder to break, and made in China
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Oura’s Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and it arrives three days before a likely IPO filing
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