Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round
Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record
Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.
China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied
Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours
Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days
China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks
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.
AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.
The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.
Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.
A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.
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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
The IronSource founders sold an ad tech company for $4.4 billion. Their next bet is that AI agents will replace the ad buyers their old company served.
ServiceNow projects $30bn by 2030, with a third of ACV from AI
Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings
eleQtron closes €57m Series A, one of Europe’s largest quantum-computing rounds
A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.
SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models
Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT
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
