India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone
Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history
UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds
Blue Origin commits another $600m to its Florida campus
Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre business to outgrow the rest of the company
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Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close
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Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity
Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed
SpaceX launched Starship V3 three weeks before its IPO. The booster exploded.
London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise
NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio
Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation
ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
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
