US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms

The decision had, in effect, already been made. According to people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters, a US interagency committee approved adding the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the memory-chip maker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flag…

Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start …

The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen
The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen

For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has m…

This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.
This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.

The hottest pitch in AI right now is not another chatbot. It is software that can run the machines on a factory floor, and a two-year-old Israeli startup has just raised $20m on the strength of programming parts for Jeff Bezos’s rockets. Limitless Labs…

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …

This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.
This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-st…

This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one
This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one

Most of the AI industry is trying to fix hallucinations by building bigger, smarter models. A startup called Probably is betting on the opposite. The company has raised $9m in a seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with Tokyo Black and V…

The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.
The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will elim…

Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity
Nvidia is backing a startup that turns its own GPUs into a commodity

Hydra Host has raised $100m to build the plumbing of the AI boom, and one of its new backers is the company whose chips it is trying to turn into a commodity: Nvidia. The Series A was led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia joining alongside ARK Invest, C…

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn to build a one-stop rival to Stripe
Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn to build a one-stop rival to Stripe

Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn, a bet that the way to take on Stripe is to own every step of a payment, not just one. The Canadian firm will pay $7.40 a share in cash for Payoneer, the cross-border specialist listed on Nasdaq, in a deal both boar…