Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live
Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build
Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes
While tech week talks AI, Scytale is talking about what’s actually killing deals
Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation
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Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame
Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do
Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US
Merantix Capital closes a €103m fund to back early-stage European AI
Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund
Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building
Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history
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
