Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.
Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.

Nvidia has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and folded the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion ecosystem, creating a partnership that covers custom AI accelerators, silicon photonics, and 5G/6G infrastructure. The deal ensures that every custom c…

OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition
OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition

The daily live show, hosted by former founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, will sit inside OpenAI’s strategy organisation and report to chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane. Terms were not disclosed. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial indepe…

Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion

A deal would give Amazon’s Leo satellite programme access to Globalstar’s L-band spectrum and operational infrastructure, a shortcut in its race to rival SpaceX’s Starlink. Apple’s stake, which powers Emergency SOS on iPhones, has made negotiations sig…

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

Paris-based Omniscient ingests 100,000+ sources, press, social, web, video, audio, internal pipelines, and synthesises them into a two-minute executive briefing. Renault is an early client. A global syndicate spanning France, Japan, and the US backed t…

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

The Zurich platform, which connects 1,500+ ingredient suppliers and 6,000 brands including Givaudan, Symrise, PUIG, and La Prairie, is evolving from a discovery marketplace into a data backbone that plugs directly into suppliers’ PIM systems and brands…

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

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering …

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

There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion post-money. The figure is up…

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

The Palo Alto small-EV company raised $200M in a Series C led by Greenoaks, with DoorDash investing alongside a multi-year commercial agreement to deploy purpose-built autonomous vehicles for last-mile delivery. DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang joins t…

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

The French open-source orchestration platform has grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the round; total funding reaches $36M. Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform for data, …

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

The Belgian embedded insurance orchestration platform, which backs Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, and Monzo, has tripled revenue over four years and now covers 15 million people across 32+ countries. Total funding crosses $100 million. Qover, the Belgian em…