Robert Polacek on AI, creative agility, and the future of design practice amidst a digital takeover

Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today

Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement

STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue

Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike

Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do

Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

Polestar says ‘pump anxiety’ has replaced range anxiety. Its balance sheet tells a more complicated story.

OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal

Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform

66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.

Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing

Seven million cameras on seven million faces: the smart glasses privacy crisis no one can stop

The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

Coutts raised its minimum to £3 million. Revolut just set its at £500,000. The mass-affluent gap is the point.

How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers

10 best ITGC tools and software for automated IT controls in 2026

Jumia is cutting another 10% of staff. AI is the framing. Profitability is the deadline.

Wall Street’s six largest banks cut 15,000 jobs and posted $47 billion in profits. The CEOs stopped pretending.

After 25 years of writing the cheques himself, Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outsiders

Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators

Why global businesses are moving to crypto mass payouts

Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.

SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company

Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake

This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.

Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read

Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production

Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up

LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list

Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months