Medly AI raises $8m to put an AI tutor in front of every UK exam student
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
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
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history
Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
Xiaomi’s first EV just passed half a million deliveries
This 1918 EV had 42 batteries and more range than a 2011 Leaf
LG’s $2 Billion lansing battery plant is now building cells
OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach
Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650
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EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation
Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew
Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight
Smack Technologies raises $61m as the Pentagon’s hurry becomes a battlefield-AI business model
Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats
Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
The productivity crisis hiding inside America’s digital transformation
Salesforce is cutting 133 more jobs. The filings don’t mention AI
