The EU just ordered Meta to let rival AI assistants back onto WhatsApp within five days
Klarna launches US savings accounts at 3.28% as the buy-now-pay-later company tries to become a bank
Anthropic says Mythos is too dangerous for the public. It just gave 150 more organisations access.
Databricks is raising again at up to $175 billion, four months after closing at $134 billion
Atomicwork launches AI workers that IT departments can hire, budget, and audit like human employees
SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is massively oversubscribed, with single investors placing $10 billion orders
The Netherlands is screening foreign investment in AI companies from January, after letting Nexperia slip through
SoftBank briefly became Japan’s most valuable company. The last time that happened was February 2000.
Engineers who helped build Salesforce’s Agentforce raised $5.1M to build its opposite
An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI
Inside the move from generative AI to agentic AI in enterprise finance
The UK is reviewing its £330M NHS deal with Palantir, and may pull the plug in 2027
Apple’s real AI story isn’t Siri: it’s a 20-billion-parameter model that runs from your iPhone’s flash
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Lovable hit $500 million in revenue with 146 employees. Its new data shows who is actually building software now.
A UK startup says it can cut data centre network power by 81% by replacing every electrical switch with light
Ghent’s Companion.energy raises €7.8M to automate enterprise energy in real time
Alta Ares raised €50M to make shooting down a drone cheaper than the drone itself
An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets
Robot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing
NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money
Finland’s ICEYE hits a €10bn valuation, quadrupling in six months as Europe scrambles for its own spy satellites
Europe’s best-funded rocket startup just raised €270M, and now Isar Aerospace has to actually reach orbit
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