Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infras…
Lees meerAfter selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. Ther…
Lees meerSergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes.…
Lees meerSamsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a…
Lees meeriPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers in the US between June 2024 and March 2025 will get $25–$95 per device. Apple admits no fault. The settled action covers consumers; the parallel securities-fraud case Apple is still trying to dismiss is structurally separ…
Lees meerIntel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to …
Lees meerThe enterprise software industry spent two decades selling seats. Buy a licence for every employee who needs access, multiply by the number of employees, and the revenue model was as predictable as the quarterly earnings calls that reported it. Then…
Lees meerThe United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that refe…
Lees meerA state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College L…
Lees meerDuolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.…
Lees meerDaniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday …
Lees meerIn April 2025, Intel’s stock was trading at 18 dollars. The company had fired its CEO three months earlier, lost the AI chip race to Nvidia so completely that analysts had stopped including it in competitive comparisons, and was being discussed in t…
Lees meerElsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions of their works to train Llama. After Judge Chhabria’s June 2025 ruling, plain…
Lees meerTuesday’s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody’s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall S…
Lees meerThe Series B is the largest ever raised by a Dutch deeptech company, and the largest private round any dedicated quantum-processor company has closed. Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners are joining a syndicate that already had FORWARD.one and…
Lees meerIn 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging no…
Lees meerThe Mythos crisis forced the United States government to confront a question it had been avoiding: what happens when an AI model is powerful enough to threaten national security and the government has no formal mechanism to evaluate it before the pu…
Lees meerTwo years ago, Nscale was a cryptocurrency mining operation. On Tuesday, the company announced €695 million ($812 million) in new infrastructure investment in Portugal, an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft that will deliver more than 66,00…
Lees meerThe founders of IronSource spent a decade building tools that helped mobile app developers monetise their products through advertising. They sold that company to Unity for $4.4 billion in 2022, watched Unity dismantle the ad network they had built, …
Lees meerOn Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and…
Lees meerServiceNow has, in 2026, become one of the more carefully watched test cases for whether enterprise software companies can ride the AI wave or be displaced by it. On Monday, the company gave investors its strongest answer yet. Bloomberg reported tha…
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