Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes
OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week
Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist
Monzo is shutting down its US operation, and its European banking licence explains why
Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel
IBM and Arm are partnering to stop mainframes being left out of the AI era
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Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s
Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal
Vibe coding is flooding Apple’s App Store, and Apple is fighting back
LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told
Microsoft calls Copilot ‘entertainment only’ while charging $30 a month for it
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Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power
OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time
ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk
Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.
