A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged
A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged

In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner’s conversations with Anthropic’s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both attorney-client privilege and work-product protection, be…

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in c…

The EU says its age verification app is ready
The EU says its age verification app is ready

Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal data to platforms. It enters a pilot phase with member…

SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI
SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI

SaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe’s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shift Europe runs in Barcelona on 13-14 October 2026. Theu…

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack
AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in Wayve, completing the silicon side of its autonomous driving stack

The extension to Wayve’s $1.2B Series D gives the London startup coverage across virtually every compute architecture in automotive use today, from chips already in millions of vehicles to the platforms powering the next generation. Robotaxi pilots wit…

Auctor emerges from stealth with $20M led by Sequoia
Auctor emerges from stealth with $20M led by Sequoia

Half of enterprise software projects miss their deadlines. One in six exceeds budgets by more than 200%. The New York startup says the problem is not the software itself but the fragmented, knowledge-scattered process of implementing it, and it has Seq…

AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US
AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US

The Kardia 12L, which uses five electrodes and a single cable to replace bulky 10-lead ECG carts, has received CE Mark. It launches first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, with its AI system detecting 35 cardiac conditions including acute m…

Agriodor raises €15M led by Crédit Mutuel Impact to scale its insect-repelling fragrances
Agriodor raises €15M led by Crédit Mutuel Impact to scale its insect-repelling fragrances

The Rennes-based INRAE spin-off uses blends of volatile organic compounds to repel or attract pest insects without harming pollinators, soil, or human health. Its first product, for sugar beet aphids, received French regulatory authorisation in March 2…

Meta and Broadcom extend their AI chip deal to 2029
Meta and Broadcom extend their AI chip deal to 2029

The expanded partnership covers several generations of Meta’s custom MTIA processors, starts with over a gigawatt of computing capacity, and is described as the ‘first phase of a sustained, multi-gigawatt rollout.’ The new chips will be the first custo…

FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation
FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation

Jane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data centre partnership with Anthropic, has grown its reven…