Fortis Solutions on the rise of human-governed AI: Building trust through intelligent infrastructure

Dan Pratl believes the credibility economy is coming and it will redefine value in the age of AI

When the machine asks you to stay

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Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion

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Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time

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What we can learn from Avocado: The unreleased AI Meta’s model

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Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030

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Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry

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WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.

SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.

Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.

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Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead

A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.

Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks

OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.

More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.

China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties

Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents

EnerVenue lands $300 million to bring NASA’s space batteries down to Earth

ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner

Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste

Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities

Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete

Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030

Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure

Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists

How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M