Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Amazon adds Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board
AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
Seed Capital closes a €130M fifth fund and expands from Denmark into the Nordics
Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence
Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook
California has banned personalised feeds for under-16s, going further than Australia or the DSA
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons
Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandboxes for AI agents
TAR raises $120m at a $1bn valuation to build off-grid power for AI
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A neoclassical stone building with a BNP Paribas sign along its roofline, seen from a Paris boulevard.
Black-and-white studio portrait of a man in a white T-shirt seated on a stepladder and a woman in a white vest top standing beside him, both smiling
Two men leaning against a wall by a large window, one in a green short-sleeved shirt with a hand on his chest, one in a navy jumper
Headshots of Antioch co-founders Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, Collin Schlager and Michael Calvey in a two-by-two grid against a pale grey wall
Ramp co-founders Karim Atiyeh, in a black T-shirt and glasses, and Eric Glyman, in a navy jumper, standing arm in arm against a white wall
Fibre optic cables plugged into the ports of a network switch in a server rack
A Tesla Cybertruck approaching with headlights on inside a concrete segment-lined Boring Company tunnel.
Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.
Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices
Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs
