Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure
Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board
London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
The SEO conference circuit in 2026 is one long argument about what comes next
HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.
Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.
The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.
This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.
The Apple Watch is 11 years old and losing momentum. Screenless rivals are winning the next phase.
India’s SolarSquare is raising $60M at a $500M valuation. It has powered 50,000 homes.
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.
Stellantis wants to build Chinese EVs in Canada and Mexico. Just not in the US.
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.
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Austrian startup REPS raises $23.6m to turn road traffic into electricity
Pivot raises $40m Series B to pitch an agentic-AI procurement OS at the enterprises legacy software has not fixed
Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio
Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation
ICEYE secures a €300M revolving credit facility from a seven-bank syndicate
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
Viktor takes $75m from Accel to put an AI coworker inside Slack and Teams
CircuitHub takes $28m from Plural to make PCBs the way clouds make compute
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
