Thrive Capital invests $100M in Shopify in rare public-market bet on AI commerce
Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital, backer of OpenAI and SpaceX, takes a $100M stake in Shopify as the stock sits 40% below its…
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Palantir faces investor exodus and German military rejection as narrative cracks
Retail traders dumped $82M in Palantir stock as they rotated into memory chips, while Germany excluded the company from its…
Polestar CEO says 'pump anxiety' is driving EV demand as fuel prices surge from…
Polestar's CEO says high fuel costs have made EVs 'all about money'. EU registrations jumped 51% in March, but the company's own…
OpenAI preparing legal action against Apple as ChatGPT-Siri partnership unravels
OpenAI says Apple buried ChatGPT inside Siri and never promoted it. Now its lawyers are working on breach-of-contract options as…
Carta launches Carta Law with Avantia acquisition, its fourth deal in eight…
Carta acquired UK law firm Avantia to launch Carta Law, embedding AI-native legal and compliance into its private capital ERP.…
Flo Health launches perimenopause tools as survey finds 66% of women felt more…
Flo Health's new perimenopause suite targets an 80M-user base with symptom scoring, timeline tracking, and relief options. A…
Graphon AI raises $8.3M seed to build a pre-model intelligence layer for…
Former Amazon and Meta researchers launch Graphon AI with $8.3M seed round. The startup builds a relational data layer that sits…
Canva report: nearly every marketer uses AI, but consumers still want the human…
Canva's 2026 report finds 97% of marketers use AI daily, but 78% of consumers prefer human-made ads. Mentions of "AI slop" have…
BCG trains AI sales agent Jamie on its best sellers - and their worst mistakes
BCG's AI agent Jamie learns from top sellers' call transcripts and their worst habits. Vercel already cut its SDR team from 10 to…
Recursive Superintelligence raises $650m at $4.65bn valuation to build…
Ex-Meta and DeepMind researchers raised $650m at a $4.65bn valuation for Recursive Superintelligence, a startup betting AI can…
Meta's smart glasses are selling by the million, but the people being secretly…
Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses and owns 82% of the market. Women are being secretly filmed, lawsuits are mounting, and…
HMRC awards £175 million AI contract to British firm Quantexa to close £46.8…
HMRC has signed a 10-year, £175 million deal with London-based Quantexa to deploy AI for fraud detection and tax compliance in a…
Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake
Cerebras priced its IPO at $185, above the range, raising $5.55bn at a $56.4bn valuation. The biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake…
US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped
The US has approved 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's H200, but Beijing has paused the orders. Jensen Huang is now in Beijing to…
Fractile's $220m round arrives as Anthropic eyes its UK silicon
Fractile has raised $220m to take its SRAM-based inference chip to production, with Accel leading and Pat Gelsinger investing.
Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months
Anduril has raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation in a round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, doubling its…
China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing
Beijing sharpened its criticism of the US MATCH Act, which would tighten chip-equipment export controls and bind Japan and the…
Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying…
Spain will push ahead with new social media and AI rules despite intense lobbying from US tech companies, digital transformation…
Webidoo raises $25m to build an ‘AI operating layer’ for small businesses
Milan- and Chicago-based Webidoo raised $25m from Azimut Libera Impresa to scale agentic AI for SMBs and fund US acquisitions.
Kevin Hartz’s A* takes a ‘less-is-more’ approach with new $450m fund
Kevin Hartz's A* has closed a $450m fund, pitched as a counter to AI megafunds chasing billion-dollar valuations at every stage.
Ursula Von der Leyen pushes EU-wide social-media age protections for children
Ursula von der Leyen says the EU's age-verification app is ready and Commission-led rules on minimum social-media ages for…
US Commerce Department deletes Microsoft, Google, xAI security-test details
The US Commerce Department has removed details of its AI security-test deal with Microsoft, Google, and xAI from its website…
Intruder launches AI pentesting agents as GCHQ-backed startup automates $50K…
GCHQ-backed Intruder launched AI pentesting agents that replicate manual pen testing in minutes. CEO Chris Wallis presents the…
Intel previews Computex 2026 lineup across handhelds, desktops, and servers as…
Intel will show Panther Lake Arc G3 handhelds, a 52-core Nova Lake desktop, and 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon at Computex 2026.…
Trentino-based Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations
Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, to scale its AI operations.
YC's Summer 2026 RFS bets on agriculture robots, drone defence, and lunar…
Y Combinator's 15-category Summer 2026 Request for Startups pivots hard toward hardware, defence, and space. The accelerator says…
Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to build the Android of humanoid robots
Meta bought ARI, a robotics AI startup, and folded it into Superintelligence Labs. The goal: be the platform every humanoid…
Nebius acquires 20-person Eigen AI for $643M as inference optimisation becomes…
Nebius pays $643M for Eigen AI, a 20-person MIT spinout that maximises tokens per GPU. In the neocloud race, inference…
OpenAI says it is
OpenAI dismissed a WSJ report on missed targets as clickbait. Investors responded by selling Oracle, CoreWeave, SoftBank, and…
Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office…
TL;DRAWS launched AI-powered business applications, Connect Decisions for supply chain, Connect Talent for recruitment, joining…