Uber announced the launch of a hotel-booking, AI voice assistant, among other new features, on Wednesday, April 29th, during its annual Go-Get event in New York City. The new service comes as a partnership with Expedia Group, expanding the capabilities…
The Next Frontier AI Challenge, announced at EurIPS in December, explicitly tells applicants not to try to catch up with OpenAI, but to leapfrog to the next architectural S-curve, with up to €1 billion in follow-on funding dangled for the three winning…
The AGCM accepted binding commitments from all three chatbot providers, establishing a concrete benchmark for what ‘adequate’ hallucination transparency must look like in practice, and a 120-day compliance window before potential fines. Italy’s competi…
The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart o…
Prices have surged from roughly 4 million yuan late last year to 7 million yuan ($1 million) today, driven by the Supermicro co-founder’s arrest, tighter enforcement, and voracious demand from Chinese AI companies unwilling to hold restricted hardware …
Google Cloud grew 63%, AWS 28%. Meta raised its full-year capex guide to $125-$145 billion, sending its shares down 6% after hours. Combined 2026 AI spending across five hyperscalers is now on track to exceed $650 billion. The question hanging over Wed…
The company is entertaining offers for approximately $50 billion at a valuation of $850–$900 billion, with a board decision expected in May and a potential IPO as early as October 2026. Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round at a valuation …
The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring …
The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia’s entry marks the chip giant’s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $…
The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. E…