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
Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack
An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children
Beyond Venture Capital: Why family offices are becoming AI’s most influential investors
Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight
Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift
Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model
The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention
Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw
Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills
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