Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up
LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list
Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months
China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing
Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read
Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises
Most startups don’t have a burn problem. They have a decision problem
Mythos goes to Tokyo: Japanese banks to get Anthropic’s vulnerability-hunting AI
Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying intensifies
Meta employees protest new mouse-tracking software days before mass layoffs
Anthropic in talks to raise $30bn at a $900bn valuation
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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.
Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance
White Circle raises $11m Seed for production AI control platform
Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners
Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre
Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system
Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build
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
