Larridin raises $30M to show companies what their AI spending buys
Tutor Intelligence raises $75M from a16z to put robots to work by the hour
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany and Europe must build their own AI more quickly
New York Times and three other US papers sue Brave over AI scraping
Musk’s midterm donations hit a record $474M, The New York Times reports
SUSE to cut about 10% of jobs as CEO cites AI, The Register reports
Suspected supermarket freezer hack spreads across six European countries
Meta reportedly weighs $20B bond sale, its first in euros
Clark raises $11M to put AI ‘Clerks’ to work on company audits
Meta lines up dollar and euro bonds days after S&P’s warning
Anthropic’s amended IPO filing shows $17bn revenue, $895bn commitments
Chip shortage disrupts Fiat production in Italy and may last to December
OpenAI launches Grid Protectors to ease AI’s strain on power grids
Alphabet launches €6B bond sale in first test of AI debt since selloff
Marvell to buy Nvidia-backed Lumentum in a $115bn all-stock deal
Musk says Colossus 2 is expanding into sites called Spam and Gun Range
Musk says Grok Bot costs were unsustainably high as users ran out early
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