Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York
Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month
Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site
Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI
Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland
Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland
Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995
Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn
Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app
Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment
OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.
South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so
CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn
DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise
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