GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet
Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million
Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software
AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most
Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month
Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion
South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.
Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.
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True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense
Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers
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
India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation
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.
Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.
OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.
