True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense
Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees
Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’
Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block
Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers
Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok’s local revenues if they refuse to pay news publishers
Social media scams cost Americans $2.1 billion in 2025
Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices
Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents
OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.
Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.
Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology
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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.
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
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
