The world’s largest EV battery maker is raising $5 billion in Hong Kong
Sereact raises $110 million Series B to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they act
China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus
India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation
Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware
The Iran war is hitting the AI supply chain where it hurts
DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth
Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.
A startup with a bankrupt fintech CEO and a president’s son wants to build America’s robot army
Brockman’s diary called it a lie. Now a jury will hear it.
The EU sanctioned Chinese firms for arming Russia. China retaliated by threatening Europe’s ability to arm itself.
China orders its apps to stop sending orders to exhausted drivers. The algorithm is now subject to collective bargaining.
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Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company
X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.
Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
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
