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Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.

In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

Five AI labs now let the US government test their models before release. The arrangement is voluntary, has no legal basis, and is the closest thing America has to AI oversight.

A crypto miner became Europe’s most valuable AI startup in two years. Now it is spending $812 million to prove the model scales.

The IronSource founders sold an ad tech company for $4.4 billion. Their next bet is that AI agents will replace the ad buyers their old company served.

Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

ServiceNow projects $30bn by 2030, with a third of ACV from AI

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group

Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings

eleQtron closes €57m Series A, one of Europe’s largest quantum-computing rounds

Firecrawl is becoming AI’s default web layer.

Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation

Apple explores Intel and Samsung for chipmaking, ending TSMC’s solo run on M-series

Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again

Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.

Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.

Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.

Apple spent a decade waiting for developers to build Wallet passes. Now it is letting users build their own.

A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.

Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes

AI is now an F1 sponsor, a strategist, and a tech director. The race weekend has changed.

Space weather could cost the satellite industry $40 billion in a single storm. A 15-person startup is building the forecast.

STMicroelectronics targets more than $3bn from space, riding the satellite constellation boom

Musk tried to settle the OpenAI case two days before trial. Then he promised to make Brockman the most hated man in America.

GameStop wants to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. Its own revenue fell 27 per cent last year.

CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid achieves the highest CCSS security certification level

SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models

Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick

Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.

Hospital websites are still leaking patient data to advertisers, four years after the warnings

Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations

OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity

Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT

Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off

Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation

UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease

The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.

SK Hynix jumps 12% as Big Tech doubles down on AI memory

Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity

Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids

Samsung swaps its TV chief for the first time in two years as TCL closes in

China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation

The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.

OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history. Anthropic banned it.

Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it

The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed it.

The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.

Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.