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Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance

Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion

More banks join SoftBank’s $40 billion OpenAI loan as syndication enters soft-launch phase

White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns

NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion

Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis

Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD

LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility

China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks

mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials

AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet

Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million

Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software

Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram

EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month

Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion

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