Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today
Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement
Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike
STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue
Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do
Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says
Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing
Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.
Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.
Polestar says ‘pump anxiety’ has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.
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Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing
Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake
Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months
Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund
Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI
Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
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
