Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure
Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board
London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident
Salesforce is selling the AI future harder than it is delivering it
Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit
Starbucks pulls its AI inventory tool nine months in, after it kept confusing the milks
Most data breaches start with a stolen password. Here’s how to fix that
Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model
China’s EV brands cross 15% in Europe, with Britain leading the charge
Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity
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Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed
Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute
RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech
Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain
Amprius and Matternet partner to bring silicon anode batteries to drone delivery
Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.
Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is
