Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Quanscient and Haiqu run the most complex quantum fluid simulation yet, on IBM’s Heron R3
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Fortis Solutions on the rise of human-governed AI: Building trust through intelligent infrastructure
Dan Pratl believes the credibility economy is coming and it will redefine value in the age of AI
When the machine asks you to stay
What we can learn from Avocado: The unreleased AI Meta’s model
Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030
Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry
WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones
A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.
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Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.
Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power
OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time
ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030
Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure
Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists
OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you
Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
