China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you
Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.
Bolt is betting that South Africa’s next ride will be a Chinese electric car
Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money
Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees
How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma
AI gave North Korean hackers a $600 million month. DeFi is still working out how to respond.
Musk’s X commits to UK regulator on hate speech, with Grok probe still open
The Winklevoss twins paid 2.5x the share price to lift Gemini off the floor
Robert Polacek on AI, creative agility, and the future of design practice amidst a digital takeover
Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today
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Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do
Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing
Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake
Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months
Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund
Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI
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
