France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue
Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through…
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a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced…
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Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand
If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a…
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SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake
SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of…
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Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July
Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it…
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Anthropic planned a $7bn takeover of chip startup MatX, then walked away
Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn,…
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OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth,…
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Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1%…
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Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M
Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face’s early rounds and his payout is reported at…
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US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation
A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding…
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BYD charged one car 350 times in nine days
BYD says it drove a randomly selected Yangwang U7 for 30,000 kilometres over nine days with 350 ultra-fast charging…
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Rivian’s CFO is leaving after six years
Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is leaving at the end of October after nearly six years, to take the…
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What’s next for AI and how to get there
In 2026, the way we talk about AI is beginning to change. Two years ago, every boardroom argument circled the same…
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Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware
Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of…
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AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy
After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to…
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Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging…
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As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment
The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloitte’s 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have…
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Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear
Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on…
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SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana
SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging…
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The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro’s approach to human-AI collaboration
Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the…
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JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout
JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout,…
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Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling
Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and…
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UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while…
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The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry…
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Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn
Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face at a valuation above $13bn, according to Business Insider, days after…
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The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data
Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable.…
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Perion acquires PRN for up to $12 million, expanding in-store retail media reach across North America
For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion’s…
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Huawei plans more AI pharma partnerships, mainly with Chinese drugmakers
Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its…
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What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch
The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it…
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London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind
Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what…
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Apple confirms its ‘Surprise and shine’ event for 9 September
Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the…
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South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America
South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide…
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Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country
Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the…
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Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude
Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of…
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Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads
Poland’s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to…
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