China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms without government approval
Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO
Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, creating a $20 billion transatlantic AI company
DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.
High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, commits to intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy
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French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation
Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe
VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI
Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap
Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox
Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
