Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent
Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its identity on a single claim: AI is the computer now. Two …

Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook
Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook

The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers before they get to you. Meta has announced a fresh wave of anti-scam tools across its platforms, WhatsApp…

Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents
Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents

Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront,  and that brands are nowhere near ready for it. When you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity which running shoes …

NVIDIA makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
NVIDIA makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

The deal pairs one of the world’s most powerful chip companies with the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO, and the compute commitment alone runs to tens of billions of dollars. When Mira Murati left OpenAI in September 2024, she declined to say…

French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation
French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-bas…

Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II
Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II

Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not a future problem. It is a present one, already cons…

Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers
Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers

Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened i…

Finperks raises $4M to become the API layer for prepaid payments in Europe
Finperks raises $4M to become the API layer for prepaid payments in Europe

The Berlin startup, founded by the team behind viafintech, is building a single integration that lets banks, fintechs, and HR platforms offer gift cards, cashback, and tax-free employee benefits, without touching the underlying infrastructure themselve…

Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist
Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in Anthropic’s court filing that sets the tone for everythin…

Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’
Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’

Do you remember the name? Moltbook, the vibe-coded platform, famous for an unsecured database that let humans impersonate AI agents, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Moltbook was, in many ways, a product of chaos. Its code was written almost ent…