VivaTech turns 10 and bets everything on AI that actually works
Early users of Anthropic’s Mythos still have access after US order
Meta signs new AI computing deals with data-centre firm Crusoe
Hyundai to buy SoftBank’s last Boston Dynamics stake for $325m
A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware
France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy
Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.
The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history
Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real
Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer
Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims
A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.
As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit
Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips
Immigrant-focused VC Geek Ventures returns with larger checks
The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.
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NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count
Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do
Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions
GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry
The Big Four bill by the hour. Andera just raised $37M to let AI do the audit.
He spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.
General Atlantic wants to back China’s Kling AI at $18bn. Beijing is telling its AI firms to refuse US money.
Rejected by 180 investors, Bland just raised $50M to prove voice AI is the future
The AI bubble didn’t pop. It sent the bill
‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
Accenture had its worst stock day ever on fears AI is eating consulting. Hours earlier, it spent $4.18bn trying to escape that.
The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.
