The new deal ties Google’s CEO to the future of its most ambitious bets, and signals that the board has finally decided they’re bets worth making. Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015 and Alphabet since 2019. In that time, the company’s market va…
Lees meerIf you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industr…
Lees meerCaitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI takin…
Lees meerDeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis is a labyr…
Lees meerA new command-line tool published to GitHub consolidates Workspace’s sprawling APIs into a single interface. It also signals how seriously the company is taking the agentic AI moment. The tool, whose documentation describes it as “one CLI for all of…
Lees meerThe global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm, the s…
Lees meerThe Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that its capital strategy is as deliberate as its product. Most tax software companies want to tell you how man…
Lees meerA seed-stage investment bank for small business M&A raises $750,000 from the backers of Uber and SpaceX. The market they’re targeting is enormous. The question is whether they’re early or right on time. Most people who sell a business do it once. Th…
Lees meerInterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of …
Lees meerThe Dublin-and-New York-based startup, backed by Ribbit Capital, Sequoia, and Index Ventures, says it processes more than €4.2bn in transactions monthly and cuts customers’ PCI compliance costs by an average of €86,000. The premise behind Evervault …
Lees meerThe neutral-atom quantum computing company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, has announced a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026. When Alain Aspect shared …
Lees meerThe London-headquartered neobank has submitted applications to the OCC and the FDIC to establish Revolut Bank US, N.A., committing $500m to the American market and appointing a former Visa executive as its new US CEO. In early 2021, Revolut told the…
Lees meerThe US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversatio…
Lees meerThe Norwegian startup claims its open-source feature management platform can give developers a safety net, just as AI-written code outpaces the humans reviewing it. For a city better known for sovereign wealth than software venture capital, Oslo ha…
Lees meerThe new model introduces native computer use, a 1-million-token context window, and a reworked tool-calling system. Whether it actually holds off Anthropic and Google is less clear. OpenAI is moving fast enough these days that it teased its next mod…
Lees meerThe Stockholm company has spent six years building infrastructure that ensures enterprise data is actually fit for AI, and it has just secured $30M to make that case globally. The pattern is familiar to anyone who has spent time around enterprise te…
Lees meerWhen FIRSTPICK backed Emilė Radytė in 2021, her company Samphire Neuroscience was still building its first product and the risk, by the fund’s own assessment, was high. There was no revenue, no clear route to market, and a proposition, a neurotechno…
Lees meerLondon-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has just closed a major funding round, pulling in roughly $1.5 billion and lifting its valuation to about $8.6 billion. The investment positions the company as one of the United Kingdom’s most highly val…
Lees meerOn March 8, 2026, in honour of International Women’s Day, a new edition of SheBuilds on Lovable invited builders from around the world to a 24-hour global, powered by Anthropic. On top of that, participants in the SheBuilds campaign receive $100 in …
Lees meerNvidia has become shorthand for the AI market itself. In the years since generative models reshaped computing, the company’s GPUs have powered everything from large-scale training clusters to real-time inference infrastructure. That dominance helped…
Lees meerThe UK government announced new regulatory requirements that will bring major video-on-demand (VoD) platforms under tighter oversight by Ofcom, aligning them more closely with traditional television broadcasters. The changes are part of implementing…
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