Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.
Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial
Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.
A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.
Your power bank is probably overheating. But don’t worry, TORRAS fixed that.
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.
HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable
Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.
Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI
Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.
SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.
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Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta
Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware
Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.
Picogrid raises $45M to become the neutral integration layer for modern defence
Fonoa raises $110M and buys PwC’s tax software to build a real-time compliance platform
Transition Ventures lands $150M Fund II with Olix, Applied Atomics and Seneca on the portfolio
AtlasEdge raises $1.2bn in debt to scale its European data-centre footprint
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
