Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees
Accenture deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees

97% of Accenture employees report Copilot helped complete routine tasks up to 15 times faster. 89% monthly active usage among the 200,000-person cohort tested. Microsoft has over 450 million M365 enterprise users; only ~3% currently pay $30/month for C…

Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’
Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’

The Information reported the deal on Tuesday. The agreement allows the DoD to use Google’s AI models without the restrictions that led Anthropic to be blacklisted in February. Google becomes the latest in a line of AI companies, alongside OpenAI and xA…

Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block
Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block

Meta is preparing to unwind its approximately $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup Manus after China’s National Development and Reform Commission formally ordered the deal’s cancellation on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing p…

Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents
Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. C…

OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.
OpenAI is building a phone that would make apps obsolete. The supply chain says it might actually ship.

OpenAI is developing a smartphone built around AI agents rather than apps, with Qualcomm and MediaTek jointly designing the custom processor and Luxshare Precision Industry co-designing and exclusively manufacturing the device, according to Ming-Chi Ku…

Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.
Google’s AI researchers told management to refuse classified military work. Management spent three years making sure it could say yes.

More than 580 Google employees, including over 20 directors, senior directors, and vice presidents, have signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work for the Pentagon, according to Bloomberg. The letter, which includes…

Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology
Microsoft drops its exclusive licence to OpenAI’s technology

Both companies announced the revised agreement in a joint statement on Monday. Microsoft retains a non-exclusive licence to OpenAI’s intellectual property through 2032, remains the primary cloud partner, and keeps its 27% equity stake. OpenAI will cont…

Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion
Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What i…

Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT
Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT

Schroders Capital and Teachers’ Venture Growth join as new investors. The transaction gives early investors and long-serving employees a route to liquidity. Vinted says it is ‘IPO-ready’ but has set no timetable. FY2024 revenue grew 36% to €813 million…

Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres
Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres

Overview’s satellites will collect sunlight continuously in geosynchronous orbit and beam it as near-infrared light to existing ground solar installations, which convert it to electricity. The approach extends solar farm output through the night withou…