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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

White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, commits to intelligence sharing with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy

Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5

Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in advancing workers’ compensation decision precision

From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostiantyn Gitko is building tech businesses across global markets

UK Biobank’s 500,000 genomes were listed for sale on Alibaba. The breach came from inside the system.

The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot have Android to itself

The Pentagon just picked the companies that will put nuclear reactors on Air Force bases

OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary markets

Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after stock falls 10% on Q1 earnings

Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026

Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain

BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership

Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion

Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029

Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation

Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe

French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI

Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date

Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager

Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap

Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox

Google splits its next TPU in two, and the AI chip war just became a design philosophy fight

SpaceX secures option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads just went cost-per-click, and the AI advertising war has its battle lines

Florida launches criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Florida State University shooting

A Japanese TV shopping company bet on Anthropic in 2021, and now it is quadrupling its fund

Meta is installing tracking software on employees’ computers to capture mouse movements and keystrokes for AI agent training

Bond wants AI to cure your doomscrolling, then monetise your memories

Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.

OpenAI to commit up to $1.5B of its own capital to DeployCo, a joint venture with PE firms valued at $10B