Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures
Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system
Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price
Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance
Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion
More banks join SoftBank’s $40 billion OpenAI loan as syndication enters soft-launch phase
White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns
NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion
Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis
Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD
LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility
China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks
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AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most
Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million
Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
Venture capital is moving beyond code because the next tech boom will be built, not programmed
Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers
The world’s largest EV battery maker is raising $5 billion in Hong Kong
Sereact raises $110 million Series B to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they act
India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.
OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.
