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
Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not
G2A names CVC veteran Krzysztof Krawczyk as advisory board chair after taking minority stake
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.
The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.
Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.
Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000
Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.
The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.
Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated
will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.
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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.
Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system
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
