Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale
Anthropic attracts $800 billion valuation offers as revenue hits $30 billion annualised run rate
Jane Street commits $6 billion to CoreWeave and takes a $1 billion equity stake
Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands
Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems
Astroport and Vermeer want to bring heavy construction equipment to the Moon
OpenAI opens its cybersecurity model to thousands of defenders in race with Anthropic’s Mythos
Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think
Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws
Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026
Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as Spiegel bets AI can do the work of a bigger workforce
A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged
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