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South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.

OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.

Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.

Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day.

“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.

Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.

Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.

OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.

True Anomaly raised $1 billion to build weapons for a programme the Pentagon has not committed to building

Venture capital is moving beyond code because the next tech boom will be built, not programmed

Freepik rebrands as Magnific: a bootstrapped, profitable $230M ARR AI creative platform

Revolut is opening its first physical store in Barcelona

True Anomaly raises $650 million as the only space startup exclusively focused on orbital defense

Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees

Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok’s local revenues if they refuse to pay news publishers

Social media scams cost Americans $2.1 billion in 2025

Patronus raises €11 million to turn senior emergency smartwatches from ‘bedside decoration’ into daily-worn devices

Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’

Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block

Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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