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ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks
Australia’s NEXTDC launches A$2.2 billion capital plan
Revolut’s IPO is two years away and it’ll be in the US
A humanoid robot just beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing
Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. States and Congress keep saying no.
Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom
Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
Threads is redesigning its website and finally adding direct messages to the desktop
Meta targets 20 May for 8,000 layoffs as it redirects billions toward AI infrastructure
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AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology
Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-energy files for an IPO that could raise up to $814M
The Axie Infinity co-founder who survived a $620M North Korean hack is now building AI drone detection for Europe’s defence
Solidroad raises $25 million to replace manual customer support QA with AI that reviews every conversation
The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit
Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents
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
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
