Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285bn: “We’re committed for the long run”
The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir
SoftBank’s debt-fuelled AI bet faces its reckoning at earnings
Trump-backed American Bitcoin posts $57m loss but grows its BTC treasury
Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets
Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion
Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.
Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows
The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.
Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days
A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.
The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower
15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls
OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.
EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres
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Obsidian Security hits a $1.1bn valuation as AI reshapes the threat
Anthropic signs a $10bn compute deal with a week-old cloud startup
HappyRobot raises $150m Series C to put AI agents to work across the enterprise
Nvidia and Dell back AI cloud startup Volta at a $2.4bn valuation
The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.
The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.
A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.
PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.
The hidden tax on growth is buried in your contracts
Attackers took over the servers that run thousands of firms’ computers. N-able’s first patch didn’t hold.
