Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead
Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks
OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you
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A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.
Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.
Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding
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Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant
Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030
Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure
Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists
Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation
ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure
Midas raises $50M Series A to solve tokenised finance’s liquidity problem
Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
