Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Meta wants to rent out its spare AI compute, and Wall Street likes the idea
Swedish court orders Google to pay Klarna nearly $2 billion in antitrust damages
EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe
SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI device prototype, Musk says the report is false
Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in it
Honda starts making batteries for data centres at a factory built for EVs it cancelled
A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures
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Krafton agrees to pay Subnautica 2 bonuses after CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge them steps down
AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering
Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028
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Pie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI search
Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first
Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres
London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers
Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist
Ottawa’s Dominion Dynamics raises CA$139M, a record for Canadian defence
Aikido buys Root to patch open source with AI.
AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation
Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure
Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn
Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money
UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot
The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast
