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Robinhood is launching a second publicly traded closed-end fund that will invest in private companies from the Y Combinator ecosystem. Robinhood Ventures Fund I

The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and

The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by form

Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its ea

The usual story about Nvidia is a hardware story: the fastest chips, in the shortest supply, at the highest price. The more important part is software. For two

Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenste

Most AI companies want to sell software to call centres. Yellow.ai wants to buy the call centres. The enterprise-AI firm has agreed to go public through a merge

A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core.

We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language,

Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing a couple of d

Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors cheered. The company said on Thursday it

A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT. A new report says that era is already over. Similarweb’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape re

The European Commission approved the PIF-led take-private of Electronic Arts under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation, removing one of the last hurdles to the big

Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flávio’s presi

Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million blank-cheque deal, deepening the family’s de

Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing investor fears that the company’s ballooning AI

Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into

Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating fricti

The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions o

Apple delivered its best-ever June quarter for iPhone sales and watched its shares fall anyway, as a warning about supply constraints and rising costs unnerved

Lloyds Banking Group is betting on artificial intelligence to strip £2bn from its costs by 2030, the clearest sign yet that Britain’s biggest high-street lender

A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US cyber-defence agency is telling utilities to get that

Tesla is weighing whether to sell, spin off, or shut down its China business to clear a path for a possible merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journ

Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the