Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership
Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation
Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.
VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI
Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree
BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving
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NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cabless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock
Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap
SpaceX secures option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B
A Japanese TV shopping company bet on Anthropic in 2021, and now it is quadrupling its fund
Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return
Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox
Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
