Meta’s policy chief Joel Kaplan will leave the company in 2027
Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople
Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards
Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit
FTC clears Publicis’ $2.2bn LiveRamp deal if rivals keep equal access
Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs
Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories
ASI hits a $3bn valuation as its AI moves from air traffic to the grid
Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief
Reliable Robotics tops a $1bn valuation with $115M for self-flying planes
Sierra and Stripe let AI agents take card payments during calls
Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst for enterprise growth
Waymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet fivefold to 20,000 by 2027
Homebase’s new AI assistant fills shifts for small business owners
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Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do
Exclusive: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to cut the heat inside quantum computers
Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers
Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO
AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
