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OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.

Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.

Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology

How Arpit Grawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT

Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres

Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app

Musk v. Altman goes to trial in Oakland

Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul

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The world’s largest EV battery maker is raising $5 billion in Hong Kong

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Sereact raises $110 million Series B to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they act

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China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus

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India’s Acko hires Kotak, ICICI Securities, and Morgan Stanley for a $350 million IPO targeting a $2.5 billion valuation

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Copenhagen’s Atech raises pre-seed from Sequoia, a16z, and Lovable to build ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware

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The Iran war is hitting the AI supply chain where it hurts

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DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth

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Sequoia is giving away the hardware for an AI project it cannot invest in. That is the point.

A startup with a bankrupt fintech CEO and a president’s son wants to build America’s robot army

Brockman’s diary called it a lie. Now a jury will hear it.

The EU sanctioned Chinese firms for arming Russia. China retaliated by threatening Europe’s ability to arm itself.

China orders its apps to stop sending orders to exhausted drivers. The algorithm is now subject to collective bargaining.

OpenAI knew. It chose not to call the police. Now Sam Altman is sorry.

The US wants to cut off China’s chip equipment. China says the supply chain will break for everyone.

The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.

Oracle needed the world’s biggest bond fund to finance the world’s biggest data centre

Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them

The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget

Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.

From web to Artificial Intelligence: Building the missing links

Securing ⁠‍the ؜futu‍re ‍؜of ⁠AI: How ‌T‍resor ‌Lisungu ‍؜‌Oteko ؜is ⁠bri‍dgi‍ng ؜cloud ⁠sy‍stems ‌؜and ‌post-quantum ؜‍؜security

Denis Brovarnyy: Tech education that starts where theory ends

Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid

X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.

US government’s Intel stake jumps 300% to $36B after CHIPS Act grants were converted to equity under Trump

SoftBank is converting a Sharp LCD factory into a battery plant for AI data centres. The data centres cannot wait five years.

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

Turkey’s parliament passes social media ban for under-15s, one week after a school shooting

Intel beats expectations for the sixth straight quarter as AI demand for CPUs surges

China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms without government approval

Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, creating a $20 billion transatlantic AI company

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia

Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.

High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.

SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.

Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence