Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms
Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late
Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger
Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code
OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale
SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode
Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet
Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach
HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia
Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up
Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical
Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre
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Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI
Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses
Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era
Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset
Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line
HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global
Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.
RJ Scaringe has raised $12 billion across three startups, and investors are still queueing up
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
