Cheap cloud was built for stability, but that world is changing
Bill Ackman proposes buying Universal Music Group for €56B
OpenAI launched a safety fellowship
nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp
The Uffizi cyberattack should worry every museum in Europe
Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn
Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under
Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi
Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify
Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth
Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes
Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel
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Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
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OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030
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OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time
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