NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment
Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns
Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.
Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.
Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.
Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.
NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.
Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its backlog hit 2.2 billion dollars, and its stock hit a record. Neutron still has not flown.
Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
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Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations
Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.
Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round
Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations
OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents
Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring
LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence
Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026
Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round
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
Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is