Mark Zuckerberg buys a 440-acre Irish estate in County Waterford
Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US
Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round
Hyundai’s luxury brand has a new flagship EV, and no European plans for it
How a 23-year old builder made AI video simple
Chinese video platform Bilibili is expanding worldwide
Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever
Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase
A data centre rack running on living neurons is now operating in Singapore
Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America
Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
Waymo built its own robotaxi chip and published its supplier list
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Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed
A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal
Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver
Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted
A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic
Muon Space raises $250m from backers including Google and Salesforce
Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client
Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table
Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
The productivity crisis hiding inside America’s digital transformation
